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Doubtful vs Indistinct - What's the difference?

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Doubtful is a related term of indistinct.


As adjectives the difference between doubtful and indistinct

is that doubtful is subject to, or causing doubt while indistinct is (of an image etc) not clearly defined or not having a sharp outline; faint or dim.

doubtful

English

Alternative forms

* doubtfull (archaic)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • 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.}}

    indistinct

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (of an image etc) not clearly defined or not having a sharp outline; faint or dim
  • (of a thought, idea etc) hazy or vague
  • (of speech) difficult to understand

    • Antonyms

    * distinct