doubt
Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/daʊt/]
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Senses
1. doubt (verb) — sense 1
Definition: To consider questionable or unlikely; to hesitate to believe; to lack confidence in; to question.
Example: He doubted that was really what you meant.
2. doubt (verb) — sense 2
Definition: To harbour suspicion about; suspect.
Example: I walk by the Rule of my Maſter, you walk by the rude working of your fancies. You are counted thieves already, by the Lord of the way; therefore, I doubt you will not be found true men at the end of the way.
3. doubt (verb) — sense 3
Definition: To anticipate with dread or fear; to apprehend.
Example: The rest of his horsemen the Duke sent to his campe, bicause they heard a great noise there, and doubted the enimies sally, and indeede they had issued foorth thrise, but were alwaies repulsed, especially through the valiantns of the English men that the Duke left there behind him [...]
4. doubt (noun) — sense 4
Definition: Disbelief or uncertainty (about something); (countable) a particular instance of such disbelief or uncertainty.
Example: There was some doubt as to who the child's real father was.
Concept: Сомнение
5. doubt (noun) — sense 5
Definition: A point of uncertainty, especially a yes/no or a multiple-choice question
Example: Ma'am, I have a doubt about today's lecture
6. doubt (noun) — sense 6
Definition: a question (that one has)
Structure of the word
Roots:- gʰeh₁bʰ (Proto-Indo-European)
Connections
Polarities
Authority ↔ Subversion — concept «Сомнение»
Confidence ↔ Doubt — concept «Сомнение»
Loyalty ↔ Betrayal — concept «Сомнение»
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