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doubt
English
Etymology
The verb is derived from Middle English douten (“to be in doubt, feel unsure; to be afraid or worried; to hesitate; to be confused; to have respect or reverence”) [and other forms], from Old French douter, doter, duter (compare Middle French doubter), from Latin dubit?re (“to hesitate”), the present active infinitive of dubit? (“to be uncertain, doubt; to hesitate, waver in coming to an opinion; to consider, ponder”); the further etymology is uncertain, but one theory is that dubit? may be derived from dubius (“fluctuating, wavering; doubtful, dubious, uncertain”), from duhibius (“held as two”), from duo (“two”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh? (“two”)) + habe? (“to have, hold”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *g?eh?b?- (“to grab, take”)). Although the Middle English form of the word was spelled without a b, this letter was later introduced through the influence of the Latin words dubit?re and dubit?. However, the English word continued to be pronounced without the b sound.
The noun is derived from Middle English dout, doute (“uncertain feeling; questionable point; hesitation; anxiety, fear; reverence, respect; something to be feared, danger;”) [and other forms],from Old French doute, dote, dute (“uncertain feeling, doubt”), from doter, douter, duter (“to doubt; to be afraid of, fear”) (compare Middle French doubter; modern French douter (“to doubt; to suspect”)); see further etymology above.
Displaced Old English tw?o (“doubt”) and tw?o?an (“to doubt”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: dout, IPA(key): /da?t/
- (Canada) IPA(key): /d??t/
- Rhymes: -a?t
Verb
doubt (third-person singular simple present doubts, present participle doubting, simple past and past participle doubted)
- (transitive, intransitive) To be undecided about; to lack confidence in; to disbelieve, to question.
- Synonyms: distrust, mistrust
- (transitive, archaic) To harbour suspicion about; suspect.
- (transitive, archaic) To anticipate with dread or fear; to apprehend.
- (transitive, obsolete) To fill with fear; to affright.
- (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To dread, to fear.
Conjugation
Usage notes
- This is generally a stative verb that rarely takes the continuous inflection. See Category:English stative verbs
- In archaic usage, the phrase after "doubt" is what the doubter worries may be the case; in modern usage, that phrase is what the doubter worries may not be the case. Thus the archaic "I doubt he may be lying" is equivalent to the modern "I doubt he is telling the truth."
- In Scotland the archaic usage is still current but with a meaning boadened beyond worry: to doubt something is to consider it likely, so examples include not just "I doubt he's lying," but also "I doubt we'll arrive before dark."
Derived terms
Related terms
- dubiety
- dubious
Translations
Noun
doubt (countable and uncountable, plural doubts)
- (uncountable, countable) Disbelief or uncertainty (about something); (countable) a particular instance of such disbelief or uncertainty.
- (countable, obsolete or India) A point of uncertainty; a query.
Alternative forms
- dout (obsolete)
Derived terms
Translations
References
Further reading
- doubt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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dought
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: dout, IPA(key): /da?t/
- Rhymes: -a?t
Etymology 1
A back-formation from doughty (compare Scots doucht, from douchty). Related to dow.
Noun
dought (usually uncountable, plural doughts)
- (Scotland, Northern England, obsolete) might, strength
References
- Wright, Joseph (1898) The English Dialect Dictionary?[1], volume 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 136
Etymology 2
From Middle English doghte, from Old English dohte (first and third person singular past tense of dugan (“to avail, be useful”)).
Verb
dought
- (dialect) alternative past of dow
Middle English
Adjective
dought
- Alternative form of dou?t
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