Redoubtable vs Doubtful - What's the difference?
redoubtable | doubtful |
Eliciting respect or fear; imposing; awe-inspiring.
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.}}
As adjectives the difference between redoubtable and doubtful
is that redoubtable is eliciting respect or fear; imposing; awe-inspiring while doubtful is subject to, or causing doubt.redoubtable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The redoubtable New York Times has been called the "newspaper of record" of the United States.