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Meaning of "dubitative" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF DUBITATIVE

ˈdjuːbɪtətɪv


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DUBITATIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Dubitative is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES DUBITATIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Dubitative mood

Dubitative mood is an epistemic grammatical mood found in some languages, that indicates that the statement is dubious, doubtful, or uncertain. It may subsist as a separate morphological category, as in Bulgarian, or else as a category of use of another form, as of the conditional mood of Italian. An example can be taken from Ojibwe, an Algonquian language of North America. Verbs in Ojibwe can be marked with a dubitative suffix, indicating that the speaker is doubtful or uncertain about what they are saying. So aakozi means "he is sick," while aakozidog can be translated as something like "he must be sick; I guess he's sick; maybe he's sick; he might be sick."...

Definition of dubitative in the English dictionary

The definition of dubitative in the dictionary is inclined to or in a state of doubt or uncertainty.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DUBITATIVE

agitative · authoritative · cogitative · debilitative · excogitative · exploitative · facilitative · imitative · incitative · interpretative · limitative · meditative · meditator · nonquantitative · qualitative · quantitative · rehabilitative · unauthoritative · vegetative · writative

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DUBITATIVE

dubieties · dubiety · dubiosities · dubiosity · dubious · dubiously · dubiousness · dubitable · dubitably · dubitancy · dubitate · dubitation · dubitatively · Dublin · Dublin Bay prawn · Dubliner · Dubna · dubnium · Dubois · dubonnet

WORDS THAT END LIKE DUBITATIVE

active · administrative · alternative · collaborative · comparative · conservative · cooperative · creative · decorative · derivative · in the negative · informative · initiative · innovative · legislative · narrative · native · negative · operative · relative · representative

Synonyms and antonyms of dubitative in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «dubitative» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF DUBITATIVE

Find out the translation of dubitative to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of dubitative from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dubitative» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

dubitative
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

dubitativa
570 millions of speakers
en

English

dubitative
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

dubitative
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

dubitative
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

dubitative
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

dubitativa
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

dubitative
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

dubitatif
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Dubitatif
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Dubitative
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

探るような
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

dubitative
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Dubitative
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

dubitative
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

dubitative
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

द्विशामक
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

kararsızlık belirten
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

dubitativa
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

dubitative
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

dubitative
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

dubitativ
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

dubitative
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

twijfelachtig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tvivelaktig
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dubitative
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dubitative

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DUBITATIVE»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of dubitative
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «dubitative».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dubitative

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DUBITATIVE»

Discover the use of dubitative in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dubitative and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Plains Cree: A Grammatical Study: Transactions, American ...
TABLE 15 DUBITATIVE Independent Conjunct TABLE 16 Subcategories of the verb according to Ellis (1961, 1971) sometimes convenient). In choosing mode ( Bloom- field, 1946; in 1928 he had used the less neutral "tense"), the implications  ...
2
Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Clause structure
3.1.2.3 Dubitative. Clearly allied to quotative/reportive and inferential sentences are DUBITATIVE sentences, in which doubt or uncertainty is expressed. The relationship arises because reporting what one has heard and classifying a ...
Timothy Shopen, 1985
3
Portage Lake: Memories of an Ojibwe Childhood
... O conjunct 1-o,op; VTI? conjunct 1-o,op VTI2 conjunct 1-o,op VTA conjunct X-1 (aw-) VTA conjunct X-1 (aw-) VTA conjunct X-1 VTA conjunct dubitative X-3 VTI prohibitive 2-o,op; VAI2 prohibitive 2 VAI conjunct dubitative 1p VAI prohibitive 2;  ...
Maude Kegg, John D. Nichols, 1991
4
Spanish/English Contrasts: A Course in Spanish Linguistics
The pages of the journal Hispania were the forum for a lively debate that sharpened mood analysis. It began with Lozano ( 1972), who elaborated on Gili Gaya by positing two grammatical features governing mood, [+optative] and [+ dubitative].
Melvin Stanley Whitley, 2002
5
Modality and Subordinators
At any rate, om is compatible with the dubitative. Recall that according to SAG, om can be selected by the dubitative predicate vara tveksamt 'be doubtful'. Furthermore, it could be argued that one of the predicates of uncertainty listed by SAG, ...
Jackie Nordstrom, 2010
6
Modality and Mood in Romance: Modal Interpretation, Mood ...
between modality and moods: if the Imperative is the grammatical expression of deontic modality, epistemicity also has its own mood, which is the Dubitative. As it is presented by Lyons, the point is totally speculative and this attracts Palmer's ...
Martin G. Becker, Eva-Maria Remberger, 2010
7
Nishnaabemwin Reference Grammar
15 echo questions 991 -eg- 'sheetlike' classifter 346 eko-, in relative date expressions 811 emphasis and personal pronouns 612 emphatic particles with pronouns 613 with pronouns 622 emphatic particles 150 endgwen(h) dubitative ...
Randy Valentine, 2001
8
A Grammar of Slave
(58) 7eyahdi netsilia nagokeyee no ball 3 is small 3pl. play dubitative 'they are apparently playing Indian ball' (speaker can hear noises but cannot see the ball game and guesses that a ball game is going on) (Bl) This particle can occur in ...
Keren Rice, 1989
9
Morphologie: Ein Internationales Handbuch Zur Flexion und ...
Apart from the irrealis marker discussed in 3.3.4, Ngiyambaa has a special marker for dubitative modality. Both may occur in a single sentence, as illustrated in (41), which may be paraphrased as 'I guess (dub) the unrealized (irr) event of our ...
G. E. Booij, Christian Lehmann, Joachim Mugdan, 2004
10
The Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics of Spanish Mood
As we have seen from the literature, it is this particular situation which provokes divergent views on the wellformedness of indicative complementation. 5.1.2.1.3 Dubitative predicates Dubitative predicates are basically distinct from epistemic ...
Henk Haverkate, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DUBITATIVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dubitative is used in the context of the following news items.
1
PKP : La grande séduction
... et progressistes pour un Québec libre (SPQ Libre) de Marc Laviolette, autoproclamé représentant de la gauche péquiste dubitative. «Le Journal de Montréal, May 15»
2
La moue de la fille de Brad Pitt et Angelina Jolie a bien fait rire les …
... médaille d'argent en affichant une moue dubitative et déçue, elle qui espérait remporter l'or. Son rictus avait inspiré des internautes facétieux ... «Le Huffington Post Quebec, Mar 15»
3
LEAD 2-L'Apple Watch, dorée à 18 carats, atteindra les $17.000
... phare que tout le monde recherche", observe Daniel Morgan (Synovus Trust Company), ajoutant que pour l'heure, Wall Street est dubitative. «Reuters, Mar 15»
4
"No-go zones" : NKM propose "une virée nocturne" à Fox News
INSOLITE - La présidente du groupe UMP au Conseil de Paris, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet se montre « dubitative" à l'égard de la plainte en ... «metronews, Feb 15»
5
L'état d'esprit de François Hollande pour 2017 selon un de ses …
Le sien, non, mais sa majorité est *légèrement* plus dubitative. C'est pourquoi il rencontre les parlementaires socialistes "par commissions ... «LeLab Europe1, Dec 14»
6
Le "triangle jaune" pour SDF qui scandalise Marseille
... l'équipe mobile de la Croix-Rouge de Marseille qui va régulièrement à la rencontre des SDF lors de maraudes est dubitative sur le dispositif. «Europe1, Dec 14»
7
Lingo: A Language-Spotter's Guide to Europe by Gaston Dorren …
... the inferential (“'I've inferred this from other information'”), and the dubitative, to express scepticism. In another mood, Dorren might instead ... «The Guardian, Nov 14»
8
Le chômage a-t-il vraiment baissé en août ?
Ce n'est pas ma femme pour une fois qui est dubitative mais mon père. Il a tout de même fallu que je lui mette sous les yeux l'impression du ... «Contrepoints, Sep 14»
9
Wearable technologies : le bracelet est mort, vive le tee-shirt connecté
L. J. : Oui, je suis dubitative sur le bracelet car à la longue c'est assez inconfortable pour l'utilisateur, mais surtout, il limite le nombre de ... «Terrafemina, May 14»
10
Affrontements à Kiev : la place de l'Indépendance, avant et après…
Quand je vois tous ces peuples qui doivent encore sacrifier des vies pour la démocratie ça me laisse dubitative quand j'entends quelqu'un me ... «madmoiZelle.com, Feb 14»
REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Dubitative [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/dubitative>. May 2024 ».
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