doubt

About 59.70 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To consider questionable or unlikely; to hesitate to believe; to lack confidence in; to question.

   He doubted that was really what you meant.

2. verb To harbour suspicion about; suspect.
3. verb To anticipate with dread or fear; to apprehend.
4. verb To fill with fear; to affright.
5. verb To dread, to fear.
6. noun Disbelief or uncertainty (about something); a particular instance of such disbelief or uncertainty.

   There was some doubt as to who the child's real father was.

7. noun A point of uncertainty, especially a yes/no or a multiple-choice question

   Ma'am, I have a doubt about today's lecture

8. noun a question (that one has)

Similar words

dubiousness dubiety doubtfulness incertitude uncertainty suspect distrust question perhaps suspicion

Often followed by

that the about of as whether it in and

Word family

doubtable doubted doubter doubters doubting doubtingly doubts