MEANING
1. To have uneasy doubts or apprehensions about an outcome or prospect.
2. To distrust or doubt the truth, reliability, or character of something or someone.
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Words that belong together
- misdoubt an outcome
- misdoubt that
On the page
She misdoubted that the promised reunion would take place.
He misdoubted the outcome while continuing to prepare for it.
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Word forms
- Base
- misdoubt
- Past tense
- misdoubted
- Past participle
- misdoubted
- Present participle
- misdoubting
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- misdoubt
- Present continuous
- am/is/are misdoubting
- Present perfect
- have/has misdoubted
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been misdoubting
- Past
- misdoubted
- Past continuous
- was/were misdoubting
- Past perfect
- had misdoubted
- Past perfect continuous
- had been misdoubting
- Future
- will misdoubt
- Future continuous
- will be misdoubting
- Future perfect
- will have misdoubted
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been misdoubting
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: misdoubt; misdoubts; misdoubted; misdoubted; misdoubting Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: misdoubts.
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