| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Not affording certainty: ambiguous, borderline, chancy, clouded, dubious, dubitable, equivocal, inconclusive, indecisive, indeterminate, problematic, problematical, questionable, uncertain, unclear, unsure. Informal : iffy. Idioms: at issue, in doubt, in question. See CERTAIN, CLEAR. 2. In doubt or dispute: arguable, contested, debatable, disputable, exceptionable, moot, mootable, problematic, problematical, questionable, uncertain. See CERTAIN. 3. Experiencing doubt: dubious, skeptical, uncertain, undecided, unsure. Idioms: in doubt. See CERTAIN. 4. Not likely: improbable, questionable, unapt, unlikely. See LIKELY. 5. Of dubious character: equivocal, questionable, shady, suspect, suspicious, uncertain. Informal : fishy. See HONEST.
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