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doubtfull

doubtfull is the archaic form of doubtful.

Meaning of doubtful

Adjective

doubtful (comparative more doubtful, superlative most doubtful)

  1. Subject to, or causing doubt.
  2. Experiencing or showing doubt, skeptical.
  3. Undecided or of uncertain outcome.
  4. (obsolete) Fearsome, dreadful.
  5. Improbable or unlikely.
  6. Suspicious, or of dubious character.
    • Yet it is not the predominant views of the experts but the views of a minority, mostly of rather doubtful standing in their profession, which are taken up and spread by the intellectuals.1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 419

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Forms of doubtfull

comparativemore doubtfull
superlativemost doubtfull

Questions about doubtfull

What is doubtfull the archaic form of?
Doubtfull is the archaic form of doubtful.

Words near doubtfull in the dictionary

  1. doubters
  2. doubtest
  3. doubteth
  4. doubtful
  5. Doubtful Creek
  6. doubtfull
  7. doubtfuller
  8. doubtfully
  9. doubtfulness
  10. doubtfulnesses
  11. doubtfuls

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doubtfull (page history and authors); doubtful (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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