misdoubtful

English

Etymology

From misdoubt +‎ -ful.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɪsˈdaʊtfəl/

Adjective

misdoubtful (comparative more misdoubtful, superlative most misdoubtful)

1. (now rare) Misgiving; doubting, suspicious. [from 16th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     She gan to cast in her misdoubtfull mynde / A thousand fearees, that love-sicke fancies faine to fynde.