Definitions of doubt
British English : doubt If you doubt something, or if you doubt whether something is true or possible, you believe that it is probably not true, genuine, or possible.No one doubted his ability.daʊt VERB
noun
- uncertainty about the truth, fact, or existence of something (esp in the phrases in doubt, without doubt, beyond a shadow of doubt, etc)
- (often plural) lack of belief in or conviction about something ⇒ all his doubts about the project disappeared
- an unresolved difficulty, point, etc
- (philosophy ) the methodical device, esp in the philosophy of Descartes, of identifying certain knowledge as the residue after rejecting any proposition which might, however improbably, be false
- (obsolete ) fear
- See give someone the benefit of the doubt
- See no doubt
verb
- (transitive; may take a clause as object) to be inclined to disbelieve ⇒ I doubt we are late
- (transitive) to distrust or be suspicious of ⇒ he doubted their motives
- (intransitive) to feel uncertainty or be undecided
- (transitive; may take a clause as object) (Scottish ) to be inclined to believe
- (transitive) (archaic ) to fear
- See I wouldn't doubt someone