Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
aleatoric | dependent on chance, luck, or an uncertain outcome. |
aleatory | dependent on chance, luck, or an uncertain outcome; (noun) aleatoric music. |
chancey | risky, uncertain. |
charily | (Adv.) CHARY, cautious. |
chariness | caution, wariness. |
chary | discreetly cautious or sparing. |
dicker | to haggle, to hesitate or dither. |
dither | a state of irresolution (verb) to act nervously or indecisively |
ditherer | one who dithers. |
dithery | given to dithering. |
doubt | a state of uncertainty; (verb) to be uncertain about. |
doubtable | capable of being doubted. |
doubtably | (Adv.) DOUBTABLE, capable of being doubted. |
doubter | one that doubts. |
doubtful | worthy of doubt (noun) something doubtful eg a starter in a race |
doubtfully | (Adv.) DOUBTFUL, worthy of doubt. |
doubtfulness | the state of being doubtful. |
doubtingly | (Adv.) DOUBTING. |
doubtless | without doubt. |
doubtlessly | (Adv.) DOUBTLESS. |
doubtlessness | the state of not being in doubt. |
dubiety | doubtfulness. |
dubiosity | the state of being doubtful. |
dubious | doubtful. |
dubiously | (Adv.) DUBIOUS, doubtful. |
dubiousness | the state of being dubious. |
dubitable | liable to be doubted; uncertain. |
dubitably | (Adv.) DUBITABLE, liable to be doubted. |
dubitancy | (Obs.) doubt. |
dubitate | to doubt; to hesitate. |
dubitation | the act of doubting. |
dubitative | relating to doubt or incertitude. |
dubitatively | (Adv.) DUBITATIVE, relating to doubt or incertitude. |
falter | to hesitate. |
falterer | one who falters. |
falteringly | (Adv.) FALTERING. |
hesitance | wavering, doubt. |
hesitancy | wavering, doubt. |
hesitant | tending to hesitate. |
hesitantly | (Adv.) HESITANT, tending to hesitate. |
hesitate | to hold back in uncertainty. |
hesitater | one who hesitates. |
hesitatingly | (Adv.) HESITATING. |
hesitation | the action of hesitating. |
hesitative | showing, or characterized by, hesitation. |
hesitator | one who hesitates. |
hesitatory | hesitating. |
iffily | (Adv.) IFFY, dodgy, chancy. |
iffy | (Coll.) dodgy, chancy IFFILY. |
incertain | (Obs.) uncertain; doubtful. |
indubious | (Arch.) not dubious. |
indubitability | the quality of being beyond question or dispute or doubt. |
indubitable | that cannot be doubted. |
indubitably | (Adv.) INDUBITABLE, that cannot be doubted. |
irresolution | vacillation. |
mammer | (Shakesp.) to hesitate, stand muttering. |
misfaith | (Arch.) distrust. |
misgive | to make or be apprehensive or suspicious. |
peradventure | by chance; (noun, obs.) doubt, uncertainty. |
qualmless | having no qualms. |
qualmy | full of qualms. |
shillyshally | to be indecisive. |
skepticism | an undecided, inquiring state of mind. |
stoiter | (Scots) to stagger. |
styte | (Scots) to stagger; of a fish, to leap above the surface of the water. |
suspensive | tending to suspend, or to keep in suspense. |
suspensively | (Adv.) SUSPENSIVE, tending to suspend, or to keep in suspense. |
swither | (Scots) to be undecided. |
tarrow | (Scots) to hesitate, be unwilling. |
undoubtful | not doubtful. |
undoubting | not doubting. |
undoubtingly | (Adv.) UNDOUBTING, not doubting. |
vacillatingly | (Adv.) VACILLATING. |
vacillation | an act or instance of vacillating. |