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Doubtfully vs Dubitably - What's the difference?

doubtfully | dubitably |

As adverbs the difference between doubtfully and dubitably

is that doubtfully is in a doubtful manner, in context of doubt or ambiguity, questionably while dubitably is {{defn|en}.

As an adjective dubitably is

doubtfully.

doubtfully

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • In a doubtful manner, in context of doubt or ambiguity, questionably.
  • * 1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
    • He looked at the mauve envelope doubtfully , and examined the postmark. "Where is Pudlington, James? and one might almost ask—why is Pudlington? No town has any right to such an offensive name."

    dubitably

    English

    Adverb

  • (en)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • doubtfully
  • * 1989 , Lawrence E. Hazelrigg, Social Science and the Challenge of Relativism (volume 2, page 123)
    • Even though a claim to know may be asserted dubitably and still be counted as a scientific claim, the imagined end of the enterprise of science remains (at least in its still predominant self-understanding) certain knowledge.
    (Webster 1913)