Definition of Doubtfully

1. Adverb. In a doubtful manner. "Gerald shook his head doubtfully"

Exact synonyms: Dubiously
Partainyms: Doubtful, Dubious

Definition of Doubtfully

1. adv. In a doubtful manner.

Definition of Doubtfully

1. Adverb. In a doubtful manner, in context of doubt or ambiguity, questionably. ¹

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Definition of Doubtfully

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Doubtfully

doubly even
doubly heterozygous
doubly labeled water
doubly magic
doubly transitive verb
doubly transitive verb form
doubt
doubtable
doubtance
doubted
doubter
doubters
doubtful
doubtfull
doubtfuller
doubtfully
doubtfulness
doubtfulnesses
doubtfuls
doubting
doubting Thomas
doubting Thomases
doubtingly
doubtings
doubtless
doubtlessly
doubtlessness
doubtlessnesses
doubtous
doubts

Literary usage of Doubtfully

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The woman in white by Wilkie Collins (1871)
"... turned from the balustrade, looked doubtfully tip and down the terrace, advanced a step towards the glass doors, and then stopped, facing us. ..."

2. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1890)
"... ancient burial grounds, and hieroglyphic inscriptions on stones and cliffs—the last two "• be doubtfully referred to the cliff-dwellers. ..."

3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1853)
"... shake their eads, and look doubtfully at one another, unable to distinguish a single word intelligible to them of all his lengthened groanings. ..."

4. English Hymns: Their Authors and History by Samuel Willoughby Duffield (1886)
"The hymn, " Jesus, full of love divine," is doubtfully ascribed to him, as it is not in his works. How beauteous were the marks divine.—COXE. The Rev. ..."

5. Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch (1885)
"... as they stood on the heights; and the Romans, also, as yet under suspense, in the toil and difficulty they were in, could only doubtfully ..."

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