doubt

1. 1.

   consider unlikely or have doubts about

   “I doubt that she will accept his proposal of marriage”

   Broaderdisbelieve
2. 2.

   lack confidence in or have doubts about

   “I doubt these reports”

   “I suspect her true motives”

   “she distrusts her stepmother”

   Broaderdistrust

Other forms of doubt

plural

doubts·

past tense

doubted·

present participle

doubting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about doubt

What does doubt mean?

doubt means "the state of being unsure of something". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in doubt?

doubt has 1 syllable: doubt. In IPA it is /ˈdaʊt/.

What is another word for doubt?

Close synonyms include uncertainty, incertitude, dubiety, doubtfulness, dubiousness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is doubt a common word?

doubt is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with doubt?

5 words rhyme with doubt. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.