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doubty

doubty adjective: dubious, doubtful. Also the obsolete form of doughty.

Adjective

doubty (comparative more doubty, superlative most doubty)

  1. (obsolete) Dubious, doubtful.
    • That treated well, of a full noble story
      Of the doubty waye, to the tower perillous
      Howe a noble knight, shoulde winne the victory
      Of many a serpent, fowle and odiousc. 1506, Stephen Hawes, “4 [The Tower of Doctrine]”, in The historie of graunde Amoure and la bell Pucel

Also used as

doubty is also the obsolete form of doughty.

Forms of doubty

comparativemore doubty
superlativemost doubty

Origin of doubty

From Middle English douti, douty, equivalent to doubt + -y.

By confusion with doubt.

Questions about doubty

What does doubty mean?
Doubty means dubious, doubtful.
What part of speech is doubty?
Doubty is an adjective.

Words near doubty in the dictionary

  1. doubtmonger
  2. doubtmongers
  3. doubts
  4. doubtsome
  5. doubtworthy
  6. doubty
  7. douc
  8. douce
  9. doucely
  10. douceness
  11. doucepere

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