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Puzzling vs Doubtful - What's the difference?

puzzling | doubtful | Related terms |

Puzzling is a related term of doubtful.


As adjectives the difference between puzzling and doubtful

is that puzzling is difficult to understand or explain; enigmatic or confusing; perplexing while doubtful is subject to, or causing doubt.

As a verb puzzling

is .

As a noun puzzling

is time spent pondering something confusing.

puzzling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Difficult to understand or explain; enigmatic or confusing; perplexing.
  • *
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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Time spent pondering something confusing.

    • 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.}}