Word Meanings - SUSPECTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Distrusted; doubted. -- Sus*pect"ed*ly, adv. -- Sus*pect"ed*ness, n.

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• DISTRUSTLESS
  Free from distrust. Shenstone.
• DOUBTFULLY
  In a doubtful manner. Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare. Dryden.
• DOUBT
  duten, douten, OF. duter, doter, douter, F. douter, fr. L. dubitare; 1. To waver in opinion or judgment; to be in uncertainty as to belief respecting anything; to hesitate in belief; to be undecided as to the truth of the negative or
• DOUBTFULNESS
  1. State of being doubtful. 2. Uncertainty of meaning; ambiguity; indefiniteness. " The doubtfulness of his expressions." Locke. 3. Uncertainty of event or issue. Bacon.
• DOUBTFUL
  1. Not settled in opinion; undetermined; wavering; hesitating in belief; also used, metaphorically, of the body when its action is affected by such a state of mind; as, we are doubtful of a fact, or of the propriety of a measure. Methinks I should
• DOUBTOUS
  Doubtful. Chaucer.
• DISTRUST
  To feel absence of trust in; not to confide in or rely upon; to deem of questionable sufficiency or reality; to doubt; to be suspicious of; to mistrust. Not distrusting my health. 2 Mac. ix. 22. To distrust the justice of your cause. Dryden. He
• DOUBTABLE
  1. Capable of being doubted; questionable. 2. Worthy of being feared; redoubtable.
• DOUBTING
  That is uncertain; that distrusts or hesitates; having doubts. -- Doubt"ing*ly, adv.
• DOUBTANCE
  State of being in doubt; uncertainty; doubt. Chaucer.
• DISTRUSTFUL
  1. Not confident; diffident; wanting confidence or thrust; modest; as, distrustful of ourselves, of one's powers. Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks. Pope. 2. Apt to distrust; suspicious; mistrustful. Boyle. -- Dis*trust"ful*ly, adv.
• DISTRUSTER
  One who distrusts.
• DOUBTLESS
  Free from fear or suspicion. Pretty child, sleep doubtless and secure. Shak.
• DOUBTER
  One who doubts; one whose opinion is unsettled; one who scruples.
• DISTRUSTING
  That distrusts; suspicious; lacking confidence in. -- Dis*trust"ing*ly, adv.
• DOUBTLESSLY
  Unquestionably. Beau. & Fl.
• REDOUBTABLE
  Formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable hero;
• REDOUBT
  reductus, literally, a retreat, from L. reductus drawn back, retired, p. p. of reducere to lead or draw back; cf. F. réduit, also fr. LL. A small, and usually a roughly constructed, fort or outwork of varying shape, commonly erected
• MISDOUBT
  To be suspicious of; to have suspicion. I do not misdoubt my wife. Shak.
• REDOUBTING
  Reverence; honor. In redoutyng of Mars and of his glory. Chaucer.
• UNDOUBTED
  Not doubted; not called in question; indubitable; indisputable; as, undoubted proof; undoubted hero. -- Un*doubt"ed*ly, adv.
• MISDOUBTFUL
  Misgiving; hesitating. "Her misdoubtful mind." Spenser.
• UNDOUBTABLE
  Indubitable.