Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Subject to doubt or question; uncertain.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Liable to be doubted; doubtful; uncertain.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Liable to be doubted; uncertain.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being
doubted ; susceptible of beingquestioned .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective open to doubt or suspicion
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Tib's keen reasonings about young Lady Penrhyn's indifference to cash, which had at first seemed but 'dubitable' to the Highland Danaë, gradually acquired force from the strength of corroborative evidence.
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Indeed, one character gives birth by Caesarian section, which I found inherently dubitable, and doubly so since both baby and mother survive the operation.
Stephen Baxter, Stone Spring (2010) Adam Roberts 2010
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Indeed, the dubitable claim of a lack of similarity between Willy and Harry is clearly null and void - one merely need examine the spellings of said names!
Making Light: Rowling's being sued for plagiarism again 2010
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Indeed, one character gives birth by Caesarian section, which I found inherently dubitable, and doubly so since both baby and mother survive the operation.
Archive 2010-04-01 Adam Roberts 2010
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Though Astell maintains that all beliefs are dubitable, as they lack self-evidence as well as clarity and distinctness, she holds that objects of faith can share the elevated epistemic status maintained by intuitions and objects of science:
Mary Astell Sowaal, Alice 2008
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When they are delivered by authority they are dubitable, confused, and lack self-evidence.
Mary Astell Sowaal, Alice 2008
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That's a much better reason for erasing a love than achieving some dubitable victory over We-Don't-Call-Him-God!
Amazing Spider-Man #545 Kinda Review | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2007
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I'll give him 4, which I don't think is reasonably dubitable.
Why her condemning torture doesn't discredit the Catholic Church Mike L 2006
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I'll give him 4, which I don't think is reasonably dubitable.
Archive 2006-10-01 Mike L 2006
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Yet a viable criterion should (a) also distinguish our knowledge claims about the external world, and (b) mark solipsistic claims as dubitable to begin with.
Pierre Gassendi Fisher, Saul 2005
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