doubtableとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

doubtable (comparative more doubtable, superlative most doubtable)

1. (uncommon) Capable of being doubted; doubtful; dubious; dubitable. See usage notes below.
   • 1971, L. J. Swingle, “On Reading Romantic Poetry”, in PMLA, volume 86, number 5, page 976:

     Descartes adopts the tool of a radical skepticism, submitting to question established beliefs, exposing them to the test of doubt, breaking them down when they prove doubtable.

2. (obsolete) Fearsome; redoubtable.

使用する際の注意点

Philosophers often use "doubtable" in its literal sense of "capable of being doubted." In other scholarly and literary contexts, the more accepted direct synonym of "doubtable" is "dubitable." In all other usage, "doubtful" and "dubious" are far more common synonyms. See also dubious § Usage notes.

同意語

• (doubtful, dubious, capable of being doubted): uncertain

等位語

• doubtworthy

派生語

参照

• doubtable in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
• “doubtable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “doubtable”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.