| 单词 | doubt |
| 释义 | Word Frequency doubt(daʊt) noun 1. uncertainty about the truth, fact, or existence of something (esp in the phrases in doubt, without doubt, beyond a shadow of doubt, etc) 2. (often plural) lack of belief in or conviction about something all her doubts about the project disappeared 3. an unresolved difficulty, point, etc 4. philosophy 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 5. obsolete fear 6. give someone the benefit of the doubt 7. no doubt verb ▶ USAGE Where a clause follows doubt in a positive sentence, it was formerly considered correct to use whether (I doubt whether he will come), but now if and that are also acceptable. In negative statements, doubt is followed by that: I do not doubt that he is telling the truth. In such sentences, but (I do not doubt but that he is telling the truth) is redundant8. (tr; may take a clause as object) to be inclined to disbelieve I doubt we are late 9. (transitive) to distrust or be suspicious of he doubted their motives 10. (intransitive) to feel uncertainty or be undecided 11. (tr; may take a clause as object) Scottish to be inclined to believe 12. (transitive) archaic to fear 13. I wouldn't doubt someone Derived forms doubtable (ˈdoubtable) adjective doubtably (ˈdoubtably) adverb doubter (ˈdoubter) noun doubtingly (ˈdoubtingly) adverb Word origin C13: from Old French douter, from Latin dubitāre |
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