Doubtful is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DOUBTFUL in dictionary:

NOUN:
• something doubtful e.g. a starter in a race
• person who is undecided or uncertain about an issue
ADJECTIVE:
• worthy of doubt
• feeling uncertain about something
• not known with certainty
• improbable
• not established as genuine or acceptable
• Not settled in opinion; undetermined; wavering; hesitating in belief; also used, metaphorically, of the body when its action is affected by such a state of mind; as, we are doubtful of a fact, or of the propriety of a measure.
• Admitting of doubt; not obvious, clear, or certain; questionable; not decided; not easy to be defined, classed, or named; as, a doubtful case, hue, claim, title, species, and the like.
• Characterized by ambiguity; dubious; as, a doubtful expression; a doubtful phrase.
• Of uncertain issue or event.
• Fearful; apprehensive; suspicious.
• open to doubt or suspicion
• fraught with uncertainty or doubt
• unsettled in mind or opinion
• unlikely

Words related to DOUBTFUL

doubtfully19 doubtfulness18 doubtfuls15 unlikely15

Words that contain DOUBTFUL

doubtfuls15 doubtfully19 undoubtful16 misdoubtful19 doubtfulness18 doubtfulnesses20

How to use DOUBTFUL in a sentence

• Nevertheless, the battle which ensued, and which was fought near Stamford Bridge, was desperate, and was long doubtful.
• For then they will be convinced how doubtful and obscure those words are in their signification, which in ordinary use appeared very clear and determined.
• Whether Vasari was right in his explanation of the action of this figure may be considered more than doubtful.
• For one whose victory is doubtful may not seize the assured reward of the victor.
• It was decided to hold a Presidential election in the prison, although some of us were rather doubtful as to the policy and anxious in regard to the result.
• Rout thickly, glaring with enlarged, doubtful eyes at Jukes, who answered him by an irresolute glance.
• She naturally shrank from being known as a discarded wife or a doubtful widow.
• At times it was evident he experienced regret, but it is doubtful whether he knew the meaning of remorse.
• There are two cases of double, alternating rhymes where it is doubtful if the subject actually felt one of the alternating rhymes.
• Every precaution is taken that there may be no doubtful or difficult expression employed.
• She has reached the place where the current is strong and rapid and escape is doubtful.
• Kucha absorbed some Chinese civilization but its doubtful loyalty to the Imperial throne often involved it in trouble.
• Field was not the sort to touch anything of a doubtful nature.
• Then will we clash again, till heaven at length Shall part us, and the doubtful strife decide.
• She was doubtful how the complaint would be received at any rate by Erebus.
• At first it was doubtful whether they meant to attack us at all.
• It is doubtful whether the term was already used by Origen.
• English still fails to replace the French language in French Canada, and its ascendency is doubtful to-day in South Africa, after nearly a century of British dominion.
• The exact construction of the fore feet is the only doubtful part.
• A moment more and the doubtful regiment proved its identity by a deadly volley, delivered at a range of seventy yards.
• Even he, perhaps, had been doubtful as to the crew, but that is only guess, for as you shall hear, we had not long the benefit of his opinion.
• It is doubtful if anyone noticed the return that Dick sent back to show that he understood.
• Like many of the stories told about Abraham Lincoln, some of the current yarns about Buffalo Bill are of doubtful authority.
• It is doubtful whether Emma ever loved him, but that does not concern any one.
• For a long time it was doubtful which would come off victorious.

Similar words containing DOUBT without suffix ful

doubt8 doubts9 doubted11 doubter10 redoubt10 doubters11 doubting12 misdoubt13 redoubts11 doubtable14 doubtably17 doubtfuls15 doubtings13 doubtless12 misdoubts14 redoubted13 undoubted13 doubtfully19 doubtingly17 misdoubted16 redoubting14 undoubtful16 undoubting14 doubtlessly17 misdoubtful19 misdoubting17 redoubtable16 redoubtably19 undoubtable16 undoubtedly18 doubtfulness18 undoubtingly19 doubtlessness16 doubtfulnesses20 doubtlessnesses18 redoubtableness20

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. We do not cooperate with the owners of this trademark. All trademark rights are owned by their owners and are not relevant to the web site "scrabble-word.com". This site is intended for entertainment and training. We try to make a useful tool for all fans of SCRABBLE. "Scrabble Word" is the best method to improve your skills in the game.