Doubtful vs Disbelief - What's the difference?
doubtful | disbelief |
Subject to, or causing doubt
or showing doubt, sceptical
Undecided or of uncertain outcome
(obsolete) Fearsome, dreadful.
*, Bk.XIV, Ch.vii:
*:‘With whom,’ seyde Sir Percivale, ‘shall I fyght?’ ‘With the moste douteful champion of the worlde.’
Improbable or unlikely
Suspicious, or of dubious character
Unclear or unreliable
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=E.R. Eddison, title=The Worm Ouroboros
, passage=The pupils of her great eyes were large in the doubtful lamplight, swallowing their green fires in deep pools of mystery and darkness.}}
Unpreparedness, unwillingness, or inability to believe that something is the case.
Astonishment.
The loss or abandonment of a belief; cessation of belief.
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As an adjective doubtful
is subject to, or causing doubt.As a noun disbelief is
unpreparedness, unwillingness, or inability to believe that something is the case.doubtful
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Alternative forms
* doubtfull (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)disbelief
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Noun
- She cried out in disbelief on hearing that terrorists had crashed an airplane into the World Trade Center in New York City.
- I stared in disbelief at the Grand Canyon.
