Word info Synonyms Antonyms

dubious

Speech parts

1. dubious - Adjective

2. dubious - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Doubtful or not settled in opinion; being in doubt; wavering or fluctuating; undetermined.

Occasioning doubt; not clear, or obvious; equivocal; questionable; doubtful; as, a dubious answer.

Of uncertain event or issue; as, in dubious battle.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

Show all synonyms

Antonyms

Show all antonyms

Phrases with the word

Anagrams

Examples

The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links. Ben Hecht

No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under all governments, insofar as they survive at all, by special classes of fanatics, often highly dubious. H. L. Mencken

There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk "his life, his fortune, and his sacred honor" on an outcome dubious. Those who fail the challenge are merely overgrown children, can never be anything else. Robert A. Heinlein

For hundreds of millions of years, Sex was the most efficient method for propagating information of dubious provenance: the origins of all those snippets of junk DNA are lost in the sands of reproductive history. Move aside, Sex: the world-wide Web has usurped your role. Seth Lloyd

It is now technically feasible to reproduce without the aid of males (or, for that matter, females) and to produce only females. We must begin immediately to do so. Retaining the male has not even the dubious purpose of reproduction. Valerie Solanas

The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners. L. Neil Smith

Close letter words and terms