Meaning

5 senses
  1. (ambitransitive)To consider questionable or unlikely; to hesitate to believe; to lack confidence in; to question.

    He doubted that was really what you meant.

    I had no wish to go, though I doubt if they would have noticed me even if I had.

    bezweifeln, zweifeln

    сумніва́тисяsumnivátysja

    consider unlikely

  2. (transitive)To harbour suspicion about; suspect.

  3. (archaic, transitive)To anticipate with dread or fear; to apprehend.

  4. (obsolete, transitive)To fill with fear; to affright.

  5. (ambitransitive, obsolete)To dread, to fear.

Examples

2589 sentences
  1. I doubt if he will come.

    Я сумніваюся, що він прийде.

    ruЯ сомневаюсь, что он придет.

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  2. I doubt whether he is honest.

    Я сумніваюся в його чесності.

    ruЯ сомневаюсь в его честности.

    deIch bezweifle seine Ehrlichkeit.

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  3. I doubt that Tom is guilty.

    Сумніваюся, що Том винен.

    ruСомневаюсь, что Том виноват.

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  4. I have no doubt about that.

    Я не маю сумнівів щодо цього.

    ruЯ не сомневаюсь в этом.

    deDaran habe ich keine Zweifel.

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  5. There's no doubt in my mind.

    В моїх думках немає жодних сумнівів.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to lack confidence in:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to lack confidence in:

Forms

doubts, doubting, doubted, doubted
Base formdoubt · to doubt
3rd person singulardoubts
Present participledoubting
Past simpledoubted
Past participledoubted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theydoubt
he, she, itdoubts

Past simpleLesson

all personsdoubted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave doubted
he, she, ithas doubted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill doubt

Synonyms

2 synonyms

Word family

10 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • doubt very seriously
  • there's no doubt
  • no doubt
  • no doubt in
  • doubt in my
  • no doubt that
  • have no doubt
  • no one doubts
  • without a doubt
  • was no doubt
  • no doubt about
  • have my doubts

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
doubt — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto