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dubious 音标拼音: [d'ubiəs] a. 可疑的,不确定的 可疑的,不确定的 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" [ synonym: { doubtful}, { dubious}] 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 [ synonym: { doubtful}, { dubious}, { dubitable}, { in question( p)}] 3: not convinced; " they admitted the force of my argument but remained dubious" 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. [ 1913 Webster] A dubious, agitated state of mind. -- Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Occasioning doubt; not clear, or obvious; equivocal; questionable; doubtful; as, a dubious answer. [ 1913 Webster] Wiping the dingy shirt with a still more dubious pocket handkerchief. -- Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Of uncertain event or issue; as, in dubious battle. Syn: Doubtful; doubting; unsettled; undetermined; equivocal; uncertain. Cf. { Doubtful}. [ 1913 Webster] 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
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