DOUBTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does doubting mean? 

• DOUBTING (adjective)
  The adjective DOUBTING has 1 sense:

1. marked by or given to doubt

  Familiarity information: DOUBTING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOUBTING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked by or given to doubt

Synonyms:

doubting; questioning; sceptical; skeptical

Context example:

a skeptical listener

Similar:

distrustful (having or showing distrust)

 Context examples 

Fanny with doubting feelings had risen to meet him, but sank down again on finding herself undistinguished in the dusk, and unthought of.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I have been doubting and considering as to what I ought to tell you.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

And now, and for the first time, he was a suppliant, tender and timid and doubting.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Elinor tried to make a civil answer, though doubting her own success.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

She could not determine how her mother would take it; sometimes doubting whether all his wealth and grandeur would be enough to overcome her abhorrence of the man.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

It was evident that he recognised my return to my old doubting frame of mind without my saying a word.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My master heard me with great appearances of uneasiness in his countenance; because doubting, or not believing, are so little known in this country, that the inhabitants cannot tell how to behave themselves under such circumstances.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

All the way to Putney, Agnes being inside the stage-coach, and I outside, I pictured Dora to myself in every one of the pretty looks I knew so well; now making up my mind that I should like her to look exactly as she looked at such a time, and then doubting whether I should not prefer her looking as she looked at such another time; and almost worrying myself into a fever about it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

For about the fifth time he then proposed the Heir at Law, doubting only whether to prefer Lord Duberley or Dr.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)