- to be uncertain about; consider questionable or unlikely; hesitate to believe: The police have good reason to doubt his alibi.
- to distrust; regard with suspicion: I doubted the salesman, so we decided to check with other dealers.
- to fear; be apprehensive about.
- to be uncertain about something; be undecided in opinion or belief: The priest told me that it was normal to doubt, but encouraged me to nurture my faith.
- a feeling of uncertainty about the truth, reality, or nature of something: We all had our doubts about your mysterious Canadian girlfriend since no one has ever seen her in person.
- distrust or suspicion: Voters naturally held some doubt about the abrupt change in policy direction issued by city hall.
- a general feeling of uncertainty, worry, or concern: As soon as I'd dropped out of school to become a full-time musician, I was full of doubt—what if I’d made a terrible mistake?Set your doubts aside, and listen to my business idea with an open mind.
- a state of affairs such as to occasion uncertainty.
- fear; dread.
- with certainty; definitely.
- in a state of uncertainty or suspense: His appointment to the position is still in doubt.
- no doubt,
- unquestionably; certainly.
- uncertainty about the truth, fact, or existence of something (esp in the phrases in doubt, without doubt, beyond a shadow of doubt, etc)
- lack of belief in or conviction about something
- an unresolved difficulty, point, etc
- the methodical device, esp in the philosophy of Descartes, of identifying certain knowledge as the residue after rejecting any proposition which might, however improbably, be false
- fear
- to presume someone suspected of guilt to be innocent; judge leniently
- almost certainly
- to be inclined to disbelieve
- to distrust or be suspicious of
- to feel uncertainty or be undecided
- to be inclined to believe
- to fear
- I would expect nothing else from someone
