Hazardous vs Doubtful - What's the difference?
hazardous | doubtful | Synonyms |
Risky, dangerous, with the nature of a hazard.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-14, volume=411, issue=8891, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (rfc-sense) Exposing to loss or evil.
Of or involving chance.
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 hazardous and doubtful
is that hazardous is risky, dangerous, with the nature of a hazard while doubtful is subject to, or causing doubt.hazardous
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