Doubtful vs Lowly - What's the difference?
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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.}}
Not high; not elevated in place; low.
* Dryden
Low in rank or social importance.
* Alexander Pope
Not lofty or sublime; humble.
* Dryden
Having a low esteem of one's own worth; humble; meek; free from pride.
* Bible, Matthew xi. 29
In a low manner; humbly; meekly; modestly.
*, Bk.XXI, Ch.x:
*:And there was none of these other knyghtes but they redde in bookes and holpe for to synge Masse, and range bellys, and dyd lowly al maner of servyce.
In a low condition; meanly.
As adjectives the difference between doubtful and lowly
is that doubtful is subject to, or causing doubt while lowly is not high; not elevated in place; low.As an adverb lowly is
in a low manner; humbly; meekly; modestly.doubtful
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Alternative forms
* doubtfull (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)lowly
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Adjective
(er)- lowly lands
- One common right the great and lowly claims.
- these rural poems, and their lowly strain
- Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart.