dubitative

[ doo-bi-tey-tiv, dyoo- ]

adjective

1. doubting; doubtful.
2. expressing doubt.

Other Words From

• dubi·tative·ly adverb
• un·dubi·tative adjective
• un·dubi·tative·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of dubitative¹

1605–15; < Late Latin dubitātīvus, equivalent to dubitāt ( us ) ( dubitation ) + -īvus -ive

Example Sentences

The season’s end had given time to recover and he had looked physically sharp in training, if still a little unsure of his place within the system and occasionally dubitative in front of goal.

From The Guardian

Besides, if Aristotle had admitted and not excluded Figures from being Causes of not moving in some Bodies, which moulded into another Figure would move, he would have impertinently propounded in a dubitative manner, in the words immediately following, whence it is, that the large and thinne Plates of Lead or Iron, rest upon the water, since the Cause was apparent, namely, the Amplitude of Figure.

From Project Gutenberg

So you are to conceive me, sitting in my house, dubitative, and the medallion chuckling in the warehouse of the German firm, for some days longer; and hear me meanwhile on the golden letters.

From Project Gutenberg

His look, it seemed to Mainwaring, appeared to be dubitative as to how far he dared to be frank.

From Project Gutenberg

“No,” said Tom, opening his pocketknife and holding it over the puff, with his head on one side in a dubitative manner.

From Project Gutenberg