Doubt vs. Hesitate — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Doubt and Hesitate
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Doubt
Doubt is a mental state in which the mind remains suspended between two or more contradictory propositions, unable to be certain of any of them. Doubt on an emotional level is indecision between belief and disbelief.
Hesitate
To pause or wait in uncertainty
She hesitated for a second before opening the door.
Doubt
A feeling of uncertainty or lack of conviction
Some doubt has been cast upon the authenticity of this account
They had doubts that they would ever win
Hesitate
To be slow to act, speak, or decide
"I have for many months hesitated about the propriety of allowing this, or any part of my narrative, to come before the public eye, until after my death" (Thomas De Quincey).
Doubt
Feel uncertain about
I doubt my ability to do the job
I doubt if anyone slept that night
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Hesitate
To be reluctant
Hesitated to pick up the pan, fearing it was hot.
Doubt
Fear; be afraid
I doubt not any ones contradicting this Journal
Hesitate
(intransitive) To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination.
He hesitated whether to accept the offer or not; men often hesitate in forming a judgment.
Doubt
To be undecided or skeptical about
Began to doubt some accepted doctrines.
Hesitate
(intransitive) To stammer; to falter in speaking.
Doubt
To tend to disbelieve; distrust
Doubts politicians when they make sweeping statements.
Hesitate
To utter with hesitation or to intimate by a reluctant manner.
Doubt
To regard as unlikely
I doubt that we'll arrive on time.
Hesitate
To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination; as, he hesitated whether to accept the offer or not; men often hesitate in forming a judgment.
Doubt
(Archaic) To suspect; fear.
Hesitate
To stammer; to falter in speaking.
Doubt
To be undecided or skeptical.
Hesitate
To utter with hesitation or to intimate by a reluctant manner.
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.
Doubt
The state of being uncertain about the truth or reliability of something.
Hesitate
Pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness;
Authorities hesitate to quote exact figures
Doubt
Often doubts A feeling of uncertainty or distrust
Had doubts about his ability.
Hesitate
Interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing;
The speaker paused
Doubt
A point about which one is uncertain or skeptical
Reassured me by answering my doubts.
Doubt
The condition of being unsettled or unresolved
An outcome still in doubt.
Doubt
(ambitransitive) To be undecided about; to lack confidence in; to disbelieve, to question.
He doubted that was really what you meant.
I had no wish to go, though I doubt if they would have noticed me even if I had.
Doubt
To harbour suspicion about; suspect.
Doubt
To anticipate with dread or fear; to apprehend.
Doubt
To fill with fear; to affright.
Doubt
To dread, to fear.
Doubt
Disbelief or uncertainty (about something); (countable) a particular instance of such disbelief or uncertainty.
There was some doubt as to who the child's real father was.
I have doubts about how to convert this code to JavaScript.
Doubt
A point of uncertainty; a query.
Doubt
To waver in opinion or judgment; to be in uncertainty as to belief respecting anything; to hesitate in belief; to be undecided as to the truth of the negative or the affirmative proposition; to b e undetermined.
Even in matters divine, concerning some things, we may lawfully doubt, and suspend our judgment.
To try your love and make you doubt of mine.
Doubt
To suspect; to fear; to be apprehensive.
Doubt
To question or hold questionable; to withhold assent to; to hesitate to believe, or to be inclined not to believe; to withhold confidence from; to distrust; as, I have heard the story, but I doubt the truth of it.
To admire superior sense, and doubt their own!
I doubt not that however changed, you keepSo much of what is graceful.
We doubt not nowBut every rub is smoothed on our way.
Doubt
To suspect; to fear; to be apprehensive of.
Edmond [was a] good man and doubted God.
I doubt some foul play.
That I of doubted danger had no fear.
Doubt
To fill with fear; to affright.
The virtues of the valiant CaratachMore doubt me than all Britain.
Doubt
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.
Doubt
Uncertainty of condition.
Thy life shall hang in doubt before thee.
Doubt
Suspicion; fear; apprehension; dread.
I stand in doubt of you.
Nor slack her threatful hand for danger's doubt.
Doubt
Difficulty expressed or urged for solution; point unsettled; objection.
To every doubt your answer is the same.
Doubt
The state of being unsure of something
Doubt
Uncertainty about the truth or factuality of existence of something;
The dubiousness of his claim
There is no question about the validity of the enterprise
Doubt
Consider unlikely or have doubts about;
I doubt that she will accept his proposal of marriage
Doubt
Lack confidence in or have doubts about;
I doubt these reports
I suspect her true motives
She distrusts her stepmother
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