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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | doubtfulness |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, chariness, concern, distrust, doubt, dubiety, dubiosity, fear, foreboding, incertitude, misgiving, presentiment, scruple, skepticism, suspicion, uncertainty, wariness, wonder |
| Notes: | to distrust is to suspect someone is dishonest; to mistrust is to merely lack confidence in someone mistrust involves a withholding of confidence, whereas distrust involves a projection of lack of confidence or suspicion |
| Antonyms: | belief, certainty, confidence, faith, trust |
| Main Entry: | pessimism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief in bad outcome |
| Synonyms: | cynicism, dark side, dejection, depression, despair, despondency, dim view, distrust, dyspepsia, expectation of worst, gloom, gloominess, gloomy outlook, glumness, grief, hopelessness, low spirits, melancholy, sadness, unhappiness |
| Antonyms: | confidence, optimism, trust |
| Main Entry: | query |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ask |
| Synonyms: | catechize, challenge, disbelieve, dispute, distrust, doubt, enquire, examine, hit up, impeach, impugn, inquire, interrogate, knock, mistrust, put out a feeler question, quiz, suspect, test the waters |
| Notes: | a query is a single question; an inquiry (or enquiry) may be a single question or extensive investigation (series of questions) a query differs from a question in that it suggests a reservation or disagreement |
| Antonyms: | answer, reply |
| Main Entry: | question |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | doubt |
| Synonyms: | call into question, cast doubt upon, challenge, controvert, disbelieve, dispute, distrust, hesitate, impeach, impugn, mistrust, oppose, puzzle over, query, suspect, suspicion, wonder about |
| Notes: | a query differs from a question in that it suggests a reservation or disagreement question means to challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of; interrogate means to examine closely, aggressively, or formally by posing a series of questions to |
| Antonyms: | certainty, doubtlessness, sureness, surety |
| Main Entry: | skepticism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | doubt |
| Synonyms: | agnosticism, apprehension, disbelief, distrust, dubiety, dubiousness, faithlessness, hesitation, indecision, lack of confidence, leeriness, questioning, reluctance, suspicion, uncertainty |
| Main Entry: | suspicion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | doubt |
| Synonyms: | bad vibes, chariness, conjecture, cynicism, distrust, dubiety, dubiosity, funny feeling, guess, guesswork, gut feeling, hunch, idea, impression, incertitude, incredulity, jealousy, lack of confidence, misgiving, mistrust, nonbelief, notion, qualm, skepticism, sneaking suspicion, supposition, surmise, uncertainty, wariness, wonder |
| Antonyms: | trust |
| Main Entry: | uncertainty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | doubt, changeableness |
| Synonyms: | ambiguity, ambivalence, anxiety, bewilderment, concern, confusion, conjecture, contingency, dilemma, disquiet, distrust, doubtfulness, dubiety, guesswork, hesitancy, hesitation, incertitude, inconclusiveness, indecision, irresolution, lack of confidence, misgiving, mistrust, mystification, oscillation, perplexity, puzzle, puzzlement, qualm, quandary, query, questionableness, reserve, scruple, skepticism, suspicion, trouble, uneasiness, unpredictability, vagueness, wonder, worry |
| Antonyms: | certainty, definiteness, security, sureness |
| Main Entry: | cynicism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | acrimony |
| Synonyms: | bitterness, distrust, doubt, misandry, misanthropy, pessimism, sarcasm |
| Main Entry: | incredulousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disbelief |
| Synonyms: | atheism, discredit, distrust, dubiety, incredulity, mistrust, nihilism, rejection, repudiation, spurning, unbelief, unbelievingness, unfaith |
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