(v. i.) To waver in opinion or judgment; to be in uncertainty as to belief respecting anything; to hesitate in belief; to be undecided as to the truth of the negative or the affirmative proposition; to b e undetermined.
(v. i.) To suspect; to fear; to be apprehensive.
(v. t.) To question or hold questionable; to withhold assent to; to hesitate to believe, or to be inclined not to believe; to withhold confidence from; to distrust; as, I have heard the story, but I doubt the truth of it.
(v. t.) To suspect; to fear; to be apprehensive of.
(v. t.) To fill with fear; to affright.
(v. i.) A fluctuation of mind arising from defect of knowledge or evidence; uncertainty of judgment or mind; unsettled state of opinion concerning the reality of an event, or the truth of an assertion, etc.; hesitation.
(v. i.) Uncertainty of condition.
(v. i.) Suspicion; fear; apprehension; dread.
(v. i.) Difficulty expressed or urged for solution; point unsettled; objection.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a further study 1082 patients with a negative or doubtful result of the physical examination were investigated using ultrasound.
(2) p-Chlorophenylalanine (PCPA) also reduced the response to levodopa but the usefulness of PCPA as an inhibitor of 5HT synthesis in these experiments in doubtful since it also inhibited the hypoglycaemic effects of 5HTP and i.c.v.
(3) There is no doubt that new techniques in molecular biology will continue to evolve so that the goal of gene therapy for many disorders may be possible in the future.
(4) I never had any doubt that the vast majority of people engaged in "business" are not the exploiters but the exploited.
(5) There is no doubt that psychological, reactive and environmental factors do play a certain role too.
(6) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
(7) Without that, and without undertaking big changes, the service's future may fall into doubt, he says.
(8) This is welcome news but it needs to be borne in mind that the manufacturing sector is still far from racing ahead and serious doubts remain about the strength of demand for manufactured goods over the medium term, particularly once stimulative measures start being withdrawn.
(9) Doubts about Hinkley Point have deepened after a detailed report by HSBC’s energy analysts described eight key challenges to the project, which will be built by the state-backed French firm EDF and be part-financed by investment from China .
(10) The mean age of gravidae with doubtful smears is about 6 years beyond the mean age of gravidae with positive smears.
(11) I have no doubt that both the Conservative and Labour parties will maintain throughout the course of the election campaign their determination to build four submarines and 160 warheads,” he says.
(12) There is little doubt that when it opens next Thursday, One New Change will be jam-packed with City workers and tourists.
(13) We feel that they, as presented, leave serious doubt as to the validity of their conclusions.
(14) Contact guidance has been suggested to direct NC cells ventrally in the trunk, but this has been subject to doubt (see Newgreen and Erickson, 1986, Int.
(15) Although “there are serious questions and doubts in our minds over the government’s seven-day working agenda … it isn’t clear what this strike action is for and what the position of the BMA is now,” he told the Guardian.
(16) There is no doubt that people were killed quite deliberately by police officers.
(17) Other critics, even if they were unsure of the lasting relevance, were willing to give Tillmans the benefit of the doubt.
(18) We interpret this exaggerated positive attitude as an attempt to overcome inner fears, doubts and ambivalences.
(19) Another forward, Manchester United's Danny Welbeck, is a major doubt for the game with a knee complaint.
(20) Coghlin said: “There is no doubt that, as a consequence of the personalities involved, these proceedings attracted a very considerable degree of media publicity both before and, to a certain degree, subsequent to the trial.
Unarguably
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The importance of the synovial APC in determining the synovial immune response is unarguable but the exact mechanisms are unclear.
(2) And the result is, unarguably, a significant advance, in terms of realism, on its celebrated public information predecessor : Women, Know your Limits!, in which the woman character's principal contribution to a political debate is the highly unlikely – given not a single cat is in evidence – "I do love little kittens."
(3) The euro crisis brought Merkel to the fore as unarguably the most powerful politician in Europe.
(4) These rights seem clear and unarguable and are largely enacted in policies and services for children living in Australia.
(5) At the court of appeal in London on Wednesday, Lord Justice Hughes, Mr Justice Treacy and Mr Justice Blake rejected his application for permission to appeal and said the proposed grounds were "unarguable".
(6) In extreme cases, such as mentally defective persons, the consent-giver is unarguably incompetent to directly exercise autonomy and a substitute consent-giver or decision-maker is required.
(7) "Although it was not linked with to any real person when written, the committee believed that the song had clearly and unarguably gained association with Lady Thatcher."
(8) Credit for inventing trip-hop, one of the most influential musical genres of the 1990s, cannot be allotted to just one person, but Jonny Dollar, who has died of cancer aged 45, was unarguably one of its main architects.
(9) Social mobility sounds unarguable, but like so many other ideas that are apparently self-evident – the primacy of the "hard-working family", the ubiquity of "generations of worklessness" – its apparent simplicity is a cover.
(10) Leo Hollis, author of Cities Are Good For You , says the one unarguably positive achievement of smart city-style thinking in modern times is the train indicator boards on the London Underground.
(11) But once things quieten down, he sketches out a portrait of modern society that often sounds unarguable.
(12) Climate campaign petition Introducing the campaign, editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger wrote : “This [campaign] will almost certainly be won in time: the physics is unarguable.
(13) Brazilian health authorities subsequently downplayed the significance of the sale of contaminated blood in HIV transmission, and likewise ignored the rising rates of AIDS among Brazil's one unarguable majority group: the poor.
(14) And while some politicians say this takes the conversation beyond class – that class is fixed, whereas cycles of deprivation caused by neglect are alterable – it is unarguable that this scrutiny would never extend to the middle class.
(15) The chain has had an unarguably beneficial effect on prices.
(16) The case for having such a post in government, going beyond the brief of an equalities minister, seems to me urgent and unarguable.
(17) The very people who had created the Labour movement and who had given it a voice and unarguable moral force throughout the 20th century were watching the dismantling of the communities that had shaped them.
(18) Our NHS Confederation Patients as Partners programme is starting to show how we can do this and the evidence is becoming unarguable.
(19) According to legal documents related to the case it added: “It is unarguable that at the relevant time (May 2015) the school was required as part of its safeguarding responsibilities to be aware of the dangers of radicalisation.
(20) The deputy prime minister not only believes the moral case for doing this is overwhelming, he also thinks the political case for action is unarguable as well.