adv
Meaning 1
In a dubious manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
dubiously
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /ˈdub.i.əs.li/
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CMU ARPABET: D UW1 B IY0 AH0 S L IY2 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adv
Meaning 2
Accompanied by doubt, or anxious uncertainty.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 3
in a doubtful manner
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Gerald shook his head doubtfully
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: doubtfully
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 4
in a questionable and dubious manner
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- these were estates his father questionably acquired
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: questionably
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin dubiusbor. English dubious Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English dubiously From dubious + -ly.
Across languages
Translations
15 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: dubtosament — in a dubious manner
- Chinese Mandarin: 可疑地 — in a dubious manner
- Chinese Mandarin: 怀疑地 — in a dubious manner
- Czech: pochybně — in a dubious manner
- Estonian: kahtlustäratavalt — in a dubious manner
- Estonian: kõhklevalt — in a dubious manner
- French: dubitativement — in a dubious manner
- French: douteusement — in a dubious manner
- German: fraglicherweise — in a dubious manner
- Ido: dubitale — in a dubious manner
- Italian: dubbiosamente — in a dubious manner
- Northern Kurdish: biguman — in a dubious manner
- Polish: wątpliwie — in a dubious manner
- Portuguese: duvidosamente — in a dubious manner
- Spanish: dudosamente — in a dubious manner