What is another word for dubious?
1084 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ djˈuːbɪəs], [ djˈuːbɪəs], [ d_j_ˈuː_b_ɪ__ə_s]Table of Contents
Similar words for dubious:
- all (adjective)
- alleged (adjective)
- ambiguous (adjective)
- apocryphal (adjective)
- beta (adjective)
- controversial (adjective)
- crooked (adjective)
- debatable (adjective)
- diffident (adjective)
- disinclined (adjective)
- disreputable (adjective)
- distrustful (adjective)
- doubtful (adjective)
- equivocal (adjective)
- erratic (adjective)
- faithless (adjective)
- far-fetched (adjective)
- fly-by-night (adjective)
- funny (adjective)
- implausible (adjective)
- improbable (adjective)
- incredulous (adjective)
- indefinite (adjective)
- inexplicit (adjective)
- leery (adjective)
- left-handed (adjective)
- legendary (adjective)
- mistrustful (adjective)
- moot (adjective)
- open (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- precarious (adjective)
- queer (adjective)
- questionable (adjective)
- ridiculous (adjective)
- shaky (adjective)
- skeptical (adjective)
- suspicious (adjective)
- tenuous (adjective)
- unapt (adjective)
- unbelievable (adjective)
- unbelieving (adjective)
- uncertain (adjective)
- unconceivable (adjective)
- undecided (adjective)
- undependable (adjective)
- unlikely (adjective)
- unsettled (adjective)
- unstable (adjective)
- unstable/unsteady (adjective)
- unsubstantiated (adjective)
- unsure (adjective)
- untrusting (adjective)
- untrustworthy (adjective)
- vague (adjective)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Dubious:
adj.
• all (adjective) • alleged (adjective)- more described,
- socalled,
- most purported,
- de-scribed,
- more purported,
- so called,
- more averred,
- most described,
- pre tended,
- de scribed,
- pre-tended,
- most averred.
- multi vocal,
- in-determinate,
- in determinate,
- un-clearer,
- most polysemous,
- puzzling,
- un-intelligible,
- most enigmatic,
- opaque,
- un-clearest,
- more multivocal,
- most multivocal,
- un clearer,
- un clearest,
- un clear,
- un intelligible,
- un-clear,
- multi-vocal,
- in conclusive,
- more polysemous,
- in-conclusive.
- more disputed,
- more contended,
- most controvertible,
- more controvertible,
- more doubtable,
- most doubtable,
- more debateable,
- most contestable,
- most debateable,
- more contestable,
- most disputed,
- most contended.
- jury out,
- bone contention,
- jury's out,
- between rock hard place,
- between sixes sevens,
- touch go,
- the jury out,
- the jurys out,
- betwixt between,
- jurys out.
- more unpoised,
- un assuming,
- more unassertive,
- in-securer,
- un poised,
- de mure,
- self effacing,
- Unpoised,
- more flinching,
- most unpoised,
- un-poised,
- with-drawn,
- re tiring,
- most blenching,
- more blenching,
- self-conscious,
- most flinching,
- in-secure,
- un obtrusive,
- in securer,
- in secure,
- re-tiring,
- un assertive,
- more unassured,
- self conscious,
- un assured,
- with drawn,
- un-obtrusive,
- un-assertive,
- re-served,
- selfeffacing,
- re served,
- de-mure,
- un-assured,
- un-assuming,
- in securest,
- timorous,
- in-securest,
- most unassertive,
- most unassured,
- selfconscious,
- unassuming,
- most rabbity,
- shrinking,
- more rabbity.
- more sticking,
- slowest,
- pro testing,
- more protesting,
- not mood,
- more objecting,
- dis inclined,
- more uneager,
- not in mood,
- in disposed,
- more balking,
- anti-pathetic,
- most balking,
- most shying,
- most objecting,
- un-sympathetic,
- un sympathetic,
- most uneager,
- un-eager,
- anti pathetic,
- dis-inclined,
- not the mood,
- most protesting,
- pro-testing,
- in-disposed,
- most sticking,
- un eager,
- more shying.
- uneasy,
- un easy,
- un-easiest,
- un-easy,
- up-tight,
- un-easier,
- un easier,
- un easiest,
- up tight,
- dis-trustful,
- dis trustful.
- mis-leading,
- clear as mud,
- un-explicit,
- unexplicit,
- more amphibological,
- more unexplicit,
- mis leading,
- muzzy,
- un explicit,
- most unexplicit,
- muzziest,
- Amphibological,
- with mixed feelings,
- muzzier,
- most amphibological.
- more shifting,
- most vagarious,
- un-natural,
- in-constant,
- in-calculable,
- in calculable,
- more vagarious,
- un-usual,
- most fluctuant,
- in constant,
- more oddball,
- in consistent,
- more fluctuant,
- un directed,
- un usual,
- more directionless,
- most shifting,
- meandering,
- in-consistent,
- most directionless,
- un-directed,
- more undirected,
- most undirected,
- shifting.
- more double-crossing,
- more unconverted,
- perfidious,
- un faithful,
- un converted,
- twofaced,
- un-loyal,
- most changeful,
- more double crossing,
- more two timing,
- most fluctuating,
- un-faithful,
- more cheating,
- more twotiming,
- most unconverted,
- most unloyal,
- two faced,
- more unloyal,
- most two-timing,
- more doublecrossing,
- more two-timing,
- more fluctuating,
- most cheating,
- un loyal,
- more changeful,
- most double-crossing,
- most twotiming,
- most two timing,
- most double crossing,
- un-converted,
- most doublecrossing.
- in consequential,
- in-credible,
- un-realistic,
- un convincing,
- illogical,
- un realistic,
- far fetched,
- in-consequential,
- in-coherent,
- in coherent,
- in credible,
- hard swallow,
- un-convincing.
- most trustless,
- here today gone tomorrow,
- more here today gone tomorrow,
- here-today-gone-tomorrow,
- most here today gone tomorrow,
- not to be relied up on,
- most cowboy,
- more trustless,
- un-professional,
- slimier,
- impermanent,
- not be relied up on,
- fly by night,
- not be trusted,
- un professional,
- more here-today-gone-tomorrow,
- short lived,
- not be relied upon,
- most here-today-gone-tomorrow,
- evanescent,
- more cowboy,
- shortlived.
- reachiest,
- re achiest,
- re achier,
- reachier,
- wont hold water,
- un reasonable,
- un-reasonable,
- in-conceivable,
- re-achiest,
- full of holes,
- for birds,
- re-achier,
- in conceivable,
- re-achy,
- full holes,
- wont wash,
- un substantial,
- re achy,
- un-substantial.
- in tangible,
- un specific,
- un-specific,
- most imprecise,
- most indeterminable,
- inexact,
- in finite,
- in-definite,
- illdefined,
- un determined,
- in exact,
- un known,
- in-exact,
- un-determined,
- in exhaustible,
- in definite,
- more unfixed,
- in-determinable,
- un-fixed,
- innumerable,
- un-defined,
- in-finite,
- in determinable,
- ill defined,
- in-tangible,
- un fixed,
- more unspecific,
- most unspecific,
- in numerable,
- most unfixed,
- un-limited,
- more imprecise,
- un defined,
- in-exhaustible,
- un-known,
- more indeterminable,
- in-numerable.
- in-sincere,
- in-sincerer,
- left handed,
- most sinistral,
- in sincere,
- sinistral,
- most ambilevous,
- more sinistral,
- most southpaw,
- more southpaw,
- in sincerer,
- lefthanded,
- in sincerest,
- southpaw,
- in-sincerest,
- more ambilevous,
- Ambilevous.
- more unverifiable,
- more handed down,
- handeddown,
- more created,
- more unhistorical,
- un verifiable,
- Told,
- most created,
- more figmental,
- most handeddown,
- in vented,
- re-lated,
- most unverifiable,
- most figmental,
- more handed-down,
- un-real,
- most fabricated,
- most unhistorical,
- in-vented,
- more unhistoric,
- most told,
- un-verifiable,
- un historical,
- un historic,
- more fabricated,
- more handeddown,
- un-historical,
- un-historic,
- most handed down,
- more told,
- most unhistoric,
- most handed-down.
- Vagarious,
- problematic,
- unsubstantiated,
- hard to swallow,
- unsettled,
- rootless,
- funny,
- inexplicit,
- tenuous,
- untrusting,
- unassertive,
- Trustless,
- between rock and hard place,
- wiggly,
- in dilemma,
- not fixed,
- improbable,
- no good,
- fly-by-night,
- far-fetched,
- Unapt,
- in dispute,
- in clouds,
- Controvertible,
- out on limb,
- suspect,
- unconverted,
- clouded,
- Sub Judice,
- fishy,
- suspicious,
- problematical,
- fair-weather,
- Multivocal,
- legendary,
- not to be trusted,
- clear as dishwater,
- not likely,
- between sixes and sevens,
- touch and go,
- no bargain,
- debatable,
- unloyal,
- open to debate,
- disputable,
- not following,
- diffident,
- handed-down,
- precarious,
- wimpy,
- rabbity,
- unlikely,
- non-believing,
- indeterminable,
- not to be relied upon,
- open to doubt,
- tottering,
- unbelievable,
- up for discussion,
- crooked,
- changeful,
- alleged,
- dithering,
- ambiguous,
- untrustworthy,
- hemming and hawing,
- hanging by thread,
- unhistoric,
- tricker,
- won't wash,
- at issue,
- Unhistorical,
- remote,
- been hit before,
- indefinite,
- uneager,
- unconfident,
- unstable,
- up for grabs,
- not in the mood,
- arguable,
- figmental,
- unconvinced,
- erratic,
- Fluctuant,
- out-standing,
- debateable,
- undecided,
- in doubt,
- nonbelieving,
- pendent,
- vague,
- unproven,
- won't hold water,
- hard to believe,
- fair weather,
- open to discussion,
- unverifiable,
- not kosher,
- unassured,
- unfixed,
- reachy,
- Doubtable,
- under examination,
- questionable,
- queer,
- equivocal,
- running hot and cold,
- Shying,
- left-handed,
- without belief,
- unspecific,
- implausible,
- under discussion,
- in a quandary,
- open discussion,
- open,
- undirected,
- imprecise,
- reedy,
- farfetched,
- directionless,
- incredulous,
- enigmatical,
- rings untrue,
- the jury's out,
- betwixt and between,
- of two minds,
- for the birds,
- untrusty,
- out of line,
- undependable,
- unreliable,
- skeptical,
- faithless,
- leery,
- on thin ice,
- unsure,
- polysemous,
- open to question,
- uncertain,
- doubtful,
- under advisement,
- extra ordinary,
- contestable,
- paradoxical,
- apocryphal,
- beta.
- un healthier,
- out limb,
- un-safer,
- un healthy,
- un-safe,
- un-healthy,
- most dynamite,
- pre carious,
- un-healthiest,
- un safe,
- un safer,
- un safest,
- pre-carious,
- un-safest,
- more dynamite,
- hanging by a thread,
- un healthiest,
- out a limb.
- fly ball,
- un-conventional,
- extra-ordinary,
- more outre,
- most outre,
- off wall,
- un commonest,
- un commoner,
- un canny,
- un-canniest,
- un-balanced,
- dis-quieting,
- un conventional,
- un-commoner,
- off the wall,
- dis quieting,
- un-common,
- un cannier,
- un hinged,
- un-cannier,
- un common,
- un-hinged,
- un canniest.
- hard believe,
- most paradoxical,
- open doubt,
- pro visional,
- un-proven,
- most unproven,
- more paradoxical,
- more unproven,
- un proven,
- hypo-thetical,
- hypo thetical.
- grotesque,
- laughable,
- nonsensical,
- silly,
- eccentric,
- bizarre,
- poppycock,
- outlandish,
- weird,
- outrageous,
- farcical,
- curious,
- foolish,
- comical,
- ludicrous,
- oddball,
- crazy.
- in significant,
- more attenuated,
- in substantial,
- more attenuate,
- reedier,
- in-substantial,
- reediest,
- most attenuate,
- most attenuated.
- on fence,
- more waffling,
- wishywashy,
- un committed,
- wishy washy,
- un-finished,
- in middle,
- most dithering,
- un-decided,
- un decided,
- un finished,
- un-committed,
- most waffling,
- more pendent,
- hemming hawing,
- in the middle,
- running hot cold,
- more dithering.
- out ordinary,
- un-likelier,
- un likelier,
- un likely,
- out of ordinary,
- un likeliest,
- unheardof,
- un-likeliest,
- un-likely.
- un steadiest,
- un steady,
- un-stablest,
- wigglier,
- un stabler,
- more teetering,
- unsteadiest,
- un-steadiest,
- wiggliest,
- un-steady,
- un stablest,
- most weaving,
- un steadier,
- more weaving,
- un-stabler,
- un-steadier,
- most teetering.
- un corroborated,
- un-corroborated,
- un-substantiated,
- most uncorroborated,
- more uncorroborated,
- un substantiated,
- uncorroborated.
- un trustiest,
- un trusty,
- un-sure,
- untrustiest,
- un confident,
- more rootless,
- untrustier,
- un-trustiest,
- wimpiest,
- un-trusty,
- un sure,
- most unconfident,
- un trustier,
- more unconfident,
- un-confident,
- un-trustier,
- most rootless.
n.
• Other relevant words: (noun)- reluctant,
- shameless,
- unstraightforward,
- unscrupulous,
- scrupulous,
- rocky,
- ambitendent,
- irresolute,
- unthinkable,
- slippery,
- Deceiving,
- corrupted,
- in dubio,
- skeptic,
- not deserving belief,
- doubting,
- unclear,
- undetermined,
- shifty,
- absurd,
- conscienceless,
- indecisive,
- hard of belief,
- Pyrrhonic,
- tricky,
- iffy,
- illusory,
- corrupt,
- tricksy,
- beyond belief,
- shy,
- deceptive,
- suppositional,
- sinister,
- a bit thick,
- more than doubtful,
- Mistakable,
- dubitable,
- incredible,
- insecure,
- tottery,
- unconscionable,
- ridiculous,
- unprincipled,
- mutable,
- fraudulent,
- tall,
- criminal,
- fence-straddling,
- evasive,
- underhand,
- inconceivable,
- catchy,
- Suspecting,
- ambivalent,
- shaky,
- distrustful,
- agnostic,
- unsound,
- incertain,
- hallucinatory,
- staggering belief,
- open to suspicion,
- dark,
- hesitant,
- disinclined,
- unpromising,
- fickle,
- hardly possible,
- changeable,
- unethical,
- controversial,
- a bit thin,
- in question,
- questioning,
- shady,
- fence-sitting,
- mistrusting,
- unimaginable,
- capricious,
- humean,
- double-minded,
- thick,
- unpredictable,
- ungodly,
- moot,
- mugwumpish,
- rotten,
- delusory,
- underhanded,
- mercurial,
- amoral,
- mugwumpian,
- confutable,
- irresolved,
- deniable,
- mistrustful,
- false,
- speculative,
- passing belief,
- indirect,
- unsafe,
- refutable,
- Ill-got,
- conjectural,
- devious,
- thin,
- illusive,
- unconscientious,
- misleading,
- dishonest,
- unhealthy,
- dishonorable,
- unconscienced,
- without remorse,
- from missouri,
- fallacious,
- unsteady,
- insidious,
- preposterous,
- unconvincing,
- infirm of purpose,
- beguiling,
- unearthly,
- Trickish,
- unresolved,
- treacherous,
- wary,
- unworthy of belief,
- ill-gotten,
- felonious,
- delusive,
- unsavory,
- without shame,
- immoral,
- at loose ends.
Other synonyms:
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- thieving,
- deceitful,
- grubby,
- duplicitous,
- sleazy,
- wily,
- mendacious,
- machiavellian,
- shonky,
- conniving,
- chancy,
- untruthful,
- crafty,
- venal,
- fast-talking,
- light-fingered,
- lowdown,
- unworthy,
- sly,
- bewildered,
- foxy,
- corruptible.
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- shabby,
- wobbly,
- manipulative.
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•
- borderline,
- bent.
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•
- clever.
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•
- low.
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•
- sharp.
- insubstantial,
- irregular,
- peculiar,
- unconfirmed,
- insulting,
- enigmatic,
- oracular,
- chary,
- imaginary,
- cautious,
- derisive,
- irresponsible,
- foggy,
- suspected,
- in the balance,
- mysterious,
- scandalous,
- strange,
- perplexing,
- negligible,
- dishonourable,
- insignificant,
- incomprehensible,
- dodgy,
- restricted,
- probationary,
- hesitating,
- imagined,
- flimsy,
- apprehensive,
- blurred,
- disgraceful,
- abject,
- meagre,
- sketchy,
- challengeable,
- Unconceivable,
- shameful,
- ideational,
- frail,
- on the edge,
- hazy,
- ignominious,
- anybody's guess,
- shadowy,
- mad,
- Distrusting,
- hazardous,
- inconstant,
- Disrespectable,
- impeach,
- paltry,
- tortuous,
- delphic,
- impossible,
- untested,
- provisional,
- Dubitative,
- provisionary,
- wild,
- misty,
- indistinct,
- undefined,
- odd,
- careful,
- polemical,
- base,
- risky,
- mystifying,
- vile,
- forced,
- SUSS,
- wobbling,
- unsealed,
- confusing,
- insane,
- loath,
- indeterminate,
- fanciful,
- unsubstantial,
- cryptic,
- faltering,
- difficult,
- uncertainly,
- feeble,
- trifling,
- confutative,
- nebulous,
- tentative,
- foreign,
- notional,
- unhopeful,
- unfamiliar,
- strained,
- nervous,
- opprobrious,
- Contradictable,
- weak,
- uncomplimentary,
- confused,
- heinous,
- unspecified,
- cowboy,
- inquiry,
- touch-and-go,
- perilous,
- marginal,
- confusable,
- Teetering,
- reprehensible,
- labyrinthine,
- cloudlike,
- unreasonable,
- unfaithful,
- untrue,
- vicious,
- dicey,
- obscure,
- indisposed,
- discreditable,
- sensitive,
- disparaging,
- ticklish,
- bad,
- contemptuous,
- qualified,
- unsupported,
- unproved,
- reticent,
- smoggy,
- dangerous,
- hairy,
- rickety,
- queasy,
- in suspense,
- wicked,
- stretched,
- fuzzy,
- fantastic,
- vacillating,
- baffling,
- under suspicion,
- polemic,
- iniquitous,
- disbelieving,
- unrealistic,
- scoffing,
- delicate,
- despicable,
- unrespectable.
Paraphrases for Dubious:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
doubtful, questionable.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
alarming, ambiguous, bad, borderline, contentious, disputed, disquieting, disturbing, hesitant, impaired, inappropriate, inconclusive, insecure, moot, mysterious, obscure, precarious, problematic, sad, shaky, skeptical, suspected, unambiguous, unclear, unreliable, unsound, vague, worrying, in-doubt.
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Other Related
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Adjective
arguable, contestable, controversial, debatable, disputable, disreputable, dodgy, equivocal, fishy, murky, objectionable, sceptical, shadowy, shady, suspect, suspicious, uncertain, unsavoury, unsure.
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Adjective
Homophones for Dubious:
- Dovish, debs, dative case, dovekie, daviesia, device, daybook, debase, deific, dibbuk, depose, diaphysis, daboecia, dipsacus, deface, devisee, devious, debug, devise, deep kiss, dipsacaceae, day book, debauchee, debussy, devices, dybbuk, dieback, devoice, dubuque, diffuse, du bois, De Bakey, defog, deep-sea, davys, deedbox, dabchick, deep-six, debauch, doofus, davis, die back, diadophis, ditty bag, dipus, debouch, database, date back, defuse.
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