Synonyms for Dubious:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • dubious.
  •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.
  •ambiguous (adjective)
  • 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.
  •apocryphal (adjective)
  • ungenuine,
  • unauthenticated.
  •beta (adjective)
  • unready,
  • flaky,
  • newest,
  • pre-release,
  • mostly working.
  •controversial (adjective)
  • more disputed,
  • more contended,
  • most controvertible,
  • more controvertible,
  • more doubtable,
  • most doubtable,
  • more debateable,
  • most contestable,
  • most debateable,
  • more contestable,
  • most disputed,
  • most contended.
  •crooked (adjective)
  • double-dealing,
  • Double dealing,
  • illegal.
  •debatable (adjective)
  • 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.
  •diffident (adjective)
  • 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.
  •disinclined (adjective)
  • 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.
  •disreputable (adjective)
  • louche,
  • disreputable,
  • notorious,
  • risque,
  • infamous,
  • nefarious,
  • ribald,
  • contemptible.
  •distrustful (adjective)
  • uneasy,
  • un easy,
  • un-easiest,
  • un-easy,
  • up-tight,
  • un-easier,
  • un easier,
  • un easiest,
  • up tight,
  • dis-trustful,
  • dis trustful.
  •doubtful (adjective)
  • wavering,
  • Mootable,
  • perplexed.
  •equivocal (adjective)
  • 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.
  •erratic (adjective)
  • 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.
  •faithless (adjective)
  • 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.
  •far-fetched (adjective)
  • 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.
  •fly-by-night (adjective)
  • 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.
  •funny (adjective)
  • more curious,
  • funnier.
  •implausible (adjective)
  • 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.
  •improbable (adjective)
  • not expected,
  • unheard of,
  • hundred-to-one,
  • slim and none,
  • outside chance.
  •incredulous (adjective)
  • SHOW-ME,
  • unsatisfied.
  •indefinite (adjective)
  • 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.
  •inexplicit (adjective)
  • in-explicit,
  • in explicit.
  •leery (adjective)
  • on ones guard,
  • on one guard.
  •left-handed (adjective)
  • 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.
  •legendary (adjective)
  • 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.
  •mistrustful (adjective)
  • mis-trustful,
  • mis trustful.
  •moot (adjective)
  • open debate.
  •open (adjective)
  • up in air,
  • yet to be decided,
  • up air,
  • yet be decided,
  • up the air.
  •precarious (adjective)
  • 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.
  •queer (adjective)
  • 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.
  •questionable (adjective)
  • hard believe,
  • most paradoxical,
  • open doubt,
  • pro visional,
  • un-proven,
  • most unproven,
  • more paradoxical,
  • more unproven,
  • un proven,
  • hypo-thetical,
  • hypo thetical.
  •ridiculous (adjective)
  • grotesque,
  • laughable,
  • nonsensical,
  • silly,
  • eccentric,
  • bizarre,
  • poppycock,
  • outlandish,
  • weird,
  • outrageous,
  • farcical,
  • curious,
  • foolish,
  • comical,
  • ludicrous,
  • oddball,
  • crazy.
  •shaky (adjective)
  • not reliable,
  • not dependable.
  •skeptical (adjective)
  • unbelieving,
  • aporetic,
  • cynical,
  • freethinking.
  •suspicious (adjective)
  • re aching,
  • re-aching,
  • out line.
  •tenuous (adjective)
  • in significant,
  • more attenuated,
  • in substantial,
  • more attenuate,
  • reedier,
  • in-substantial,
  • reediest,
  • most attenuate,
  • most attenuated.
  •unapt (adjective)
  • un aptest,
  • un-aptest,
  • un apter,
  • un-apter.
  •unbelievable (adjective)
  • Incogitable,
  • lamebrained,
  • cockamamie,
  • past belief.
  •unbelieving (adjective)
  • non believing,
  • more nonbelieving,
  • most nonbelieving,
  • un-believing,
  • un believing.
  •uncertain (adjective)
  • un predictable,
  • un-predictable,
  • un foreseeable,
  • un-foreseeable.
  •unconceivable (adjective)
  • un-conceivable,
  • un conceivable.
  •undecided (adjective)
  • 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.
  •undependable (adjective)
  • trickest,
  • bummest,
  • nogood,
  • un-dependable,
  • un dependable.
  •unlikely (adjective)
  • out ordinary,
  • un-likelier,
  • un likelier,
  • un likely,
  • out of ordinary,
  • un likeliest,
  • unheardof,
  • un-likeliest,
  • un-likely.
  •unsettled (adjective)
  • unpaid,
  • un paid,
  • out standing,
  • over-due,
  • in arrears,
  • over due,
  • un-settled,
  • un settled,
  • un-paid.
  •unstable (adjective)
  • un-stable,
  • un stable.
  •unstable/unsteady (adjective)
  • 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.
  •unsubstantiated (adjective)
  • un corroborated,
  • un-corroborated,
  • un-substantiated,
  • most uncorroborated,
  • more uncorroborated,
  • un substantiated,
  • uncorroborated.
  •unsure (adjective)
  • 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.
  •untrusting (adjective)
  • un-trusting,
  • un trusting.
  •untrustworthy (adjective)
  • more fair weather,
  • fairweather,
  • un-trustworthy,
  • finker,
  • more fair-weather,
  • more fairweather,
  • more conniving,
  • dis loyal,
  • un trustworthy,
  • most fair weather,
  • most fairweather,
  • dis-loyal,
  • finkest,
  • most fair-weather,
  • most conniving.
  •vague (adjective)
  • mis understood,
  • most bewildering,
  • mis-understood,
  • most generalized,
  • be wildering,
  • un specified,
  • be-wildering,
  • more generalized,
  • more blurred,
  • in-explicable,
  • more bewildering,
  • in explicable,
  • un-specified.

• n.

  •
  • inclined to think/believe/agree etc.,
  • sceptical.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • thieving,
  • deceitful,
  • grubby,
  • duplicitous,
  • sleazy,
  • wily,
  • mendacious,
  • machiavellian,
  • shonky,
  • conniving,
  • chancy,
  • untruthful,
  • crafty,
  • venal,
  • fast-talking,
  • light-fingered,
  • lowdown,
  • unworthy,
  • sly,
  • bewildered,
  • foxy,
  • corruptible.
  •
  • dogmatic,
  • inconclusive,
  • artful,
  • spitball,
  • cunning,
  • lousy.
  •
  • shabby,
  • wobbly,
  • manipulative.
  •
  • borderline,
  • bent.
  •
  • clever.
  •
  • low.
  •
  • sharp.
  •Other relevant words:
  • 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:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    questionable, doubtful.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    ambiguous, contentious, precarious, borderline, in-doubt, disputed, obscure, problematic, suspected, unreliable, inconclusive, hesitant, vague, disturbing, unsound, unclear, skeptical, shaky, impaired, moot, bad, insecure, worrying, sad, alarming, mysterious, disquieting, inappropriate, unambiguous.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    suspicious, disputable, debatable, controversial, uncertain, contestable, shady, suspect, dodgy, objectionable, murky, sceptical, unsavoury, equivocal, arguable, disreputable, fishy, shadowy, unsure.

Antonyms for Dubious:

• adj.

  • doubtful
    trustworthy, determined, likely, doubtless, secure, unquestionable, reliable, probable, unobscure, certain, believable, trusty, definite, undoubted, Undoubtful, positive, Indubious, unambiguous, sure, aboveboard, honest, clear.
  • vague, unclear
    settled.
  • Other antonyms:
    perspicuous, unquestioned, unquestioning, Questionless, unequivocal, distinct, ready, glad, earthly, plain, unproblematic, manifest, self-assured, inclined, decided, enthusiastic, keen, hands down, convinced, evident, imaginable, disposed, open-and-shut, willing, potential, lucid, happy, eager, definitive.

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.