NO DOUBT • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of No doubt

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/noʊ daʊt/ Listen

noun

Doubt n.

1.

A fluctuation of mind arising from defect of knowledge or evidence; uncertainty of judgment or mind; unsettled state of opinion concerning the reality of an event, or the truth of an assertion, etc.; hesitation. "Doubt is the beginning and the end of our efforts to know." "Doubt, in order to be operative in requiring an acquittal, is not the want of perfect certainty (which can never exist in any question of fact) but a defect of proof preventing a reasonable assurance of quilt."

2.

Uncertainty of condition. "Thy life shall hang in doubt before thee."

3.

Suspicion; fear; apprehension; dread. (Obs.) "I stand in doubt of you." "Nor slack her threatful hand for danger's doubt."

4.

Difficulty expressed or urged for solution; point unsettled; objection. "To every doubt your answer is the same."

No doubt, undoubtedly; without doubt.

Out of doubt, beyond doubt. (Obs.)

Synonyms: Uncertainty; hesitation; suspense; indecision; irresolution; distrust; suspicion; scruple; perplexity; ambiguity; skepticism.

See images of 'No doubt'

Etymology of 'No doubt'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"No doubt" Quotes from Famous Books

... leader, for transmission to the committee, my third report, and a tracing, showing the country traversed since my last was written. I regret that I have been unable to devote as much attention to either as I could have desired; but I have no doubt the committee will make due allowance for my want of time, and the inconveniences attending the execution of such work in ...

— Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia • William John Wills

... 'No doubt;—by law he would have such power. But the magistrates would be very loath to assist him. The feeling of the community, as I said, would be in your favour. She would be cowed, and when once she was away from him he would probably feel averse to increase our enmity ...

— John Caldigate • Anthony Trollope

... trail was growing hot. This voluble colonel had given him new ideas. It came to Duane in surprise that he was famous along the upper Rio Grande. Assuredly he would not long be able to conceal his identity. He had no doubt that he would soon meet the chiefs of this clever and bold rustling gang. He could not decide whether he would be safer unknown or known. In the latter case his one chance lay in the fatality connected with his name, in his power to look it and act it. Duane had never dreamed ...

— The Lone Star Ranger • Zane Grey

... wore the shape, instead, of a vague premise that there were a great many different kinds of religions—the past and dead races had multiplied these in their time literally into thousands—and that each no doubt had its central support of truth somewhere for the good men who were in it, and that to call one of these divine and condemn all the others was a part fit only for untutored bigots. Renan had formally repudiated ...

— The Damnation of Theron Ware • Harold Frederic

... of experience, providing a season that follows closely upon the impressions of the day, ere yet they are too deeply imbedded, in which our deeper life may pluck away the adhering burrs from its garments, and arise disburdened, clean, and free. I make no doubt that Death also performs, though in an ampler and more thorough way, the same functions. It opposes the tyranny of memory. For were our experience to go on forever accumulating, unwinnowed, undiminished, every man would sooner or later break down beneath it; every man would be crushed ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 7, No. 43, May, 1861 • Various

Copyright © 2024 Free-Translator.com