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misdoubtful

UK/mɪsˈdaʊtfəl/

misdoubtful adjective: misgiving; doubting, suspicious.

Adjective

misdoubtful (comparative more misdoubtful, superlative most misdoubtful)

  1. (archaic) Misgiving; doubting, suspicious.
    • She gan to cast in her misdoubtfull mynde / A thousand fearees, that love-sicke fancies faine to fynde.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of misdoubtful

comparativemore misdoubtful
superlativemost misdoubtful

Origin of misdoubtful

From misdoubt + -ful.

Questions about misdoubtful

What does misdoubtful mean?
Misdoubtful means misgiving; doubting, suspicious.
What part of speech is misdoubtful?
Misdoubtful is an adjective.
How do you pronounce misdoubtful?
Misdoubtful is pronounced /mɪsˈdaʊtfəl/ (UK).

Words near misdoubtful in the dictionary

  1. misdooming
  2. misdoubt
  3. misdoubted
  4. misdoubtest
  5. misdoubteth
  6. misdoubtful
  7. misdoubting
  8. misdoubtings
  9. misdoubts
  10. misdraft
  11. misdrafted

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