Wandering vs Doubt - What's the difference?
wandering | doubt |
Which wanders; travelling from place to place.
(medicine, of an organ) Abnormally capable of moving in certain directions.
Travelling with no preset route; roaming.
Irregular turning of the eyes.
Aimless thought.
Straying from a desired path.
(chiefly, in the plural) Disordered speech or delirium.
Uncertainty, disbelief.
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(ambitransitive) To lack confidence in; to disbelieve, question, or suspect.
* Hooker
* Dryden
(archaic) To fear; to suspect.
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , I.186:
(obsolete) To fear; to be apprehensive of.
* R. of Gloucester
* Shakespeare
* Spenser
(obsolete) To fill with fear; to affright.
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* Beaumont and Fletcher
As nouns the difference between wandering and doubt
is that wandering is travelling with no preset route; roaming while doubt is uncertainty, disbelief.As verbs the difference between wandering and doubt
is that wandering is present participle of lang=en while doubt is to lack confidence in; to disbelieve, question, or suspect.As an adjective wandering
is which wanders; travelling from place to place.wandering
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Adjective
(-)- a wandering''' kidney; a '''wandering liver
Derived terms
(terms derived from wandering) * wandering abscess * wandering albatross * wandering cell * wandering dune * wandering Jew * wandering kidney * wandering liver * wandering mouse * wandering pacemaker * wandering sequence * wandering set * wandering spider * wandering tattlerNoun
(en noun)Verb
(head)doubt
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia doubt)- It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street.. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts .
Verb
(en verb)- He doubted that was really what you meant.
- Even in matters divine, concerning some things, we may lawfully doubt
- To try your love and make you doubt of mine.
- He fled, like Joseph, leaving it; but there, / I doubt , all likeness ends between the pair.
- Edmond [was a] good man and doubted God.
- I doubt some foul play.
- I of doubted danger had no fear.
- The virtues of the valiant Caratach / More doubt me than all Britain.