/daʊt/
Translation
To feel not sure that something is true or that it will happen.
Word origin
From Latin dubitare, meaning to waver or be of two minds.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- dubitare
Grammar
Examples
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Here "doubt" means to feel not sure.
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"Doubts" is the form used with he, she, or it.
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"Doubted" is the past form of "doubt".
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Grammar articles
(12)Adjective order in English: opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, material, purpose
Articles in English: a, an, the and the zero article
Both, either and neither in English: the two-of-something words, agreement traps, and Me neither
British vs American grammar: have got, gotten, the team are, and the other quiet differences
Compound nouns in English: car park, coffee cup, and why GREENhouse is not green HOUSE
Emphasis in English: I do like it, my own, the very, and how to push back
Quantifiers in English: some, any, much, many and more
Relative clauses in English: defining, non-defining and when to drop the pronoun
Reporting verbs in English: admit, deny, suggest, promise, and the pattern welded to each one
Separable and inseparable phrasal verbs: the rules that matter
Used to, would and be used to: talking about past habits and states in English
Word formation in English: how suffixes build word families and give away the part of speech
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