Dubious

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dubious \Du"bi*ous\, a. [L. dubius, dubiosus, fr. duo two. See
     {Two}, and cf. {Doubt}.]
     1. Doubtful or not settled in opinion; being in doubt;
        wavering or fluctuating; undetermined. "Dubious policy."
        --Sir T. Scott.
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              A dubious, agitated state of mind. --Thackeray.
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     2. Occasioning doubt; not clear, or obvious; equivocal;
        questionable; doubtful; as, a dubious answer.
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              Wiping the dingy shirt with a still more dubious
              pocket handkerchief.                  --Thackeray.
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     3. Of uncertain event or issue; as, in dubious battle.
  
     Syn: Doubtful; doubting; unsettled; undetermined; equivocal;
          uncertain. Cf. {Doubtful}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dubious
       adj 1: fraught with uncertainty or doubt; "they were doubtful that
              the cord would hold"; "it was doubtful whether she
              would be admitted"; "dubious about agreeing to go"
              [syn: {doubtful}]
       2: open to doubt or suspicion; "the candidate's doubtful past";
          "he has a dubious record indeed"; "what one found
          uncertain the other found dubious or downright false"; "it
          was more than dubitable whether the friend was as
          influential as she thought"- Karen Horney [syn: {doubtful},
           {dubitable}, {in question(p)}]
       3: not convinced; "they admitted the force of my argument but
          remained dubious"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  177 Moby Thesaurus words for "dubious":
     Humean, Pyrrhonic, a bit thick, a bit thin, absurd, agnostic,
     ambitendent, ambivalent, amoral, arguable, at issue, at loose ends,
     beguiling, beyond belief, capricious, catchy, changeable,
     confutable, conjectural, conscienceless, contestable,
     controversial, controvertible, corrupt, corrupted, criminal,
     crooked, dark, debatable, deceiving, deceptive, delusive, delusory,
     deniable, devious, dishonest, dishonorable, disinclined,
     disputable, distrustful, double-minded, doubtable, doubtful,
     doubting, dubitable, equivocal, evasive, fallacious, false,
     felonious, fence-sitting, fence-straddling, fickle, fishy,
     fly-by-night, fraudulent, from Missouri, hallucinatory,
     hard of belief, hard to believe, hardly possible, hesitant, iffy,
     ill-got, ill-gotten, illusive, illusory, immoral, implausible,
     improbable, in dispute, in doubt, in dubio, in question,
     inconceivable, incredible, incredulous, indecisive, indirect,
     infirm of purpose, insecure, insidious, irresolute, irresolved,
     leery, mercurial, misleading, mistakable, mistrustful, mistrusting,
     moot, more than doubtful, mugwumpian, mugwumpish, mutable,
     not deserving belief, not kosher, of two minds, open,
     open to doubt, open to question, open to suspicion, passing belief,
     preposterous, problematic, questionable, questioning, refutable,
     reluctant, ridiculous, rocky, rotten, scrupulous, shady, shaky,
     shameless, shifty, shy, sinister, skeptic, skeptical, slippery,
     speculative, staggering belief, suppositional, suspect, suspecting,
     suspicious, tall, thick, thin, tottery, treacherous, trickish,
     tricksy, tricky, trustless, unbelievable, uncertain, unclear,
     unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable, unconvincing,
     undecided, undependable, underhand, underhanded, undetermined,
     unearthly, unethical, ungodly, unhealthy, unimaginable, unlikely,
     unpredictable, unprincipled, unpromising, unreliable, unresolved,
     unsafe, unsavory, unscrupulous, unsettled, unsound, unstable,
     unsteady, unstraightforward, unsure, unthinkable, untrusting,
     untrustworthy, untrusty, unworthy of belief, wary, without remorse,
     without shame