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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lack confidence in; question |
| Synonyms: | be apprehensive of, be curious, be dubious, be in a quandary, be puzzled, be uncertain, be undetermined, call in question, challenge, demur, disbelieve, discredit, dispute, distrust, fear, fluctuate, give no credence, harbor suspicion, have qualms, hesitate, imagine, impugn, insinuate, misdoubt, misgive, mistrust, not buy, query, read differently, scruple, shilly-shally, skepticize, smell a rat, surmise, suspect, take dim view of, vacillate, waver, wonder at |
| Antonyms: | be certain, believe, not question, rely, trust |
| Main Entry: | wonder |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | doubt; ponder |
| Synonyms: | ask oneself, be curious, be inquisitive, conjecture, disbelieve, inquire, meditate, puzzle, query, question, speculate, think |
| Antonyms: | believe, know |
| Main Entry: | misdoubt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | doubt |
| Synonyms: | be apprehensive of, be curious, be dubious, be in a quandary, be puzzled, be uncertain, be undetermined, call in question, challenge, demur, disbelieve, discredit, dispute, distrust, fear, fluctuate, give no credence, harbor suspicion, have one's doubts, have qualms, hesitate, imagine, impugn, insinuate, misgive, mistrust, not buy, query, question, read differently, scruple, shilly-shally, skepticize, smell a rat, surmise, suspect, take dim view of, vacillate, waver, wonder, wonder at |
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| Main Entry: | doubt |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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abroad, adrift, afraid to say, ambiguous, ancipitous, apocryphal, astray, at a loss, at a nonplus, at fault, at one's wit's end, at sea, casual, changeable, confused, contingent, contingent on, controvertible, debatable, deceptive, dependent on, dependent on circumstances, disputable, distracted, distraught, distrustful of, doubtful, doubting, dubious, enigmatic, equivocal, evasive, experimental, fallacious, fallible, false, fine-spun, hard to believe, hypothetical, ignorant, illusive, illusory, in a cloud, in a maze, in a state of uncertainty, in question, in suspense, inconceivable, incredible, incredulous as to, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, jesuitical, lost, mebby-scales, minimifidian, mystic, not to be believed, occasional, open to discussion, open to doubt, open to suspicion, oracular, out of one's reckoning, overrefined, paradoxical, perplexing, pettifogging, plausible, plausive, precarious, problematical, puzzled, questionable, quibbling, shy of, skeptical as to, slippery, sophistical, specious, staggering, subject to, suspect, suspicious, suspicious of, ticklish, unascertained, unauthentic, unauthenticated, unauthoritative, unbelieving, uncertain, unconfirmed, uncounted, undecided, undefinable, undefined, undemonstrable, undemonstrated, undeserving of belief, undetermined, unreliable, unsettled, untold, untrustworthy, unworthy of belief, vague
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| Concept: | Wonder. |
| Category: | 4. Contemplative Affections |
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-nouns
wonder, marvel; astonishment, amazement, wonderment, bewilderment; amazedness; admiration, awe; stupor, stupefaction; stound, fascination; sensation; surprise (inexpectation)., note of admiration; thaumaturgy(sorcery).
-verbs
wonder, marvel, admire; be surprised; start; stare; open one's eyes, rub one's eyes, turn up one's eyes; gloar; gape, open one's mouth, hold one's breath; look aghast, stand aghast, stand agog; look blank (disappointment); tomber des nues; not believe one's eyes, not believe one's ears, not believe one's senses., not be able to account for (unintelligible); not know whether one stands on one's head or one's heels., surprise, astonish, amaze, astound; dumfound, dumfounder; startle, dazzle; daze; strike, strike with wonder, strike with awe; electrify; stun, stupefy, petrify, confound, bewilder, flabbergast, stagger, throw on one's beam ends, fascinate, turn the head, take away one's breath, strike dumb; make one's hair stand on end, make one's tongue cleave to the roof of one's mouth; make one stare., take by surprise (be unexpected)., be wonderful; beggar description, beggar the imagination, baffle description; stagger belief.
-adjectives
surprised; aghast, all agog, breathless, agape; open-mouthed; awestruck, thunderstruck, moonstruck, planet-struck; spellbound; lost in amazement, lost in wonder, lost in astonishment; struck all of a heap, unable to believe one's senses, like a duck ion thunder., wonderful, wondrous; surprising; unexpected; unheard of; mysterious (inexplicable); miraculous. indescribable, inexpressible, ineffable; unutterable, unspeakable., monstrous, prodigious, stupendous, marvelous; inconceivable, incredible; inimaginable, unimaginable; strange (uncommon); passing strange., striking; overwhelming; wonder-working.
-adverbs
wonderfully; fearfully; for a wonder, in the name of wonder; strange to say; mirabile dictu, mirabile visu; to one's great surprise., with wonder, with gaping mouth; with open eyes, with upturned eyes.
-phrases
vox faucibus haesit; one's hair standing on end.
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| Antonyms: | expectance (absence of wonder) |
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