Doubtful

Definition

doubtful /'daƱtfl/ adj ၁။ ~ ( about sth/doing sth) မေသခ်ာ ေသာ။ သံသယျဖစ္ေသာ။ မေရမရာျဖစ္ေသာ။ She looked rather doubtful. ❍ I feel doubtful about going/about whether to go or not. ၂။ ~ ( whether/if/that…) ျဖစ္ႏိုင္ေျခ မရိွေသာ။ ျဖစ္ႏိုင္မည္ မထင္ေသာ။ It is extremely/increasingly doubtful that anyone survived the explosion. ၃။ စိတ္မခ်ရေသာ။ The weather looks rather doubtful. ❍ The horse is a doubtful runner/starter (ie may not take part in the race). ၄။ မ႐ိုးသားဟန္ရိွေသာ။ မစစ္မမွန္ဟု ထင္ရေသာ။ a witness of doubtful character/honesty ❍ a joke in doubtful taste. မနိပ္တဲ့ျပက္လံုး။ doubtfully /-fǝli/ adv

Examples

1. Already the whole project was looking doubtful.
2. [it is doubtful (that)/whether/if/how] : It is doubtful whether he will survive.
3. Kirkwood is doubtful for tonight’s match.
4. You still seem a bit doubtful.
5. [doubtful about] : He was doubtful about the accuracy of the results.
6. [doubtful (that)/whether/if] : The board was doubtful that her estimates were realistic.
7. Documents of doubtful authenticity