Uncertain vs Doubtworthy - What's the difference?
uncertain | doubtworthy |
Not certain; unsure.
*(John Tillotson) (1630-1694)
*:Man, without the protection of a superior Being,is uncertain of everything that he hopes for.
Not known for certain; questionable.
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Not yet determined; undecided.
Variable and subject to change.
Fitful or unsteady.
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*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
Unpredictable or capricious.
*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:O woman! in our hours of ease, / Uncertain , coy, and hard to please!
Worthy of doubt; uncertain.
* {{quote-journal, 2007, date=December 29, Sanford Goldberg, Must Differences in Cognitive Value be Transparent?, Erkenntnis, url=, doi=10.1007/s10670-007-9096-4, volume=69, issue=2, pages=
, passage=After all, she is using ‘water’ with the intention of designating a natural kind; and so if she stops to consider whether it is possible that there are in fact two natural kinds in play, both exhibiting superficially indistinguishable watery features but different as to their underlying nature, she herself would regard T1** and T2** as differentially doubtworthy . }}