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dubious

adj
/ˈd͡ʒuː.bi.əs/UK/ˈdu.bi.əs/US

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin dubiusbor. English dubious From Latin dubius; like doubt, from Latin duo (cognate to English two), implying “two alternatives” (yes or no, true or false, etc.).

  1. derived from duo
  2. borrowed from dubius

Definitions

  1. Arousing doubt

    Arousing doubt; questionable; open to suspicion.

    • After he made some dubious claims about the company, fewer people trusted him.
    • They were renowned as people of dubious morals.

  2. In disbelief

    In disbelief; wavering, uncertain, or hesitating in opinion; inclined to doubt; undecided.

    • She was dubious about my plan at first, but later I managed to persuade her to cooperate.

  3. Generally considered imprecise or wrong, but not totally unplayable.

The neighborhood

Derived

dubious honor, dubious honour, dubiously, dubiousness, dubious tiger moth, indubious, superdubious, undubious

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at dubious. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at dubious. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at dubious

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA