Usually means: Expressing uncertainty or lack of conviction.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. doubtfully: Merriam-Webster
  2. doubtfully: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. doubtfully: Collins English Dictionary
  4. doubtfully: Vocabulary.com
  5. Doubtfully, doubtfully: Wordnik
  6. doubtfully: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. doubtfully: Wiktionary
  8. Doubtfully, doubtfully: Dictionary.com
  9. Doubtfully: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. doubtfully: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. doubtfully: Rhymezone
  12. Doubtfully: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. doubtfully: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. doubtfully: FreeDictionary.org
  15. doubtfully: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. doubtfully: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. doubtfully: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (doubtfully)

▸ adverb:  In a doubtful manner, in context of doubt or ambiguity, questionably.

Similar:
dubiously, doubtingly, dubitatively, questionably, dubitably, unsurely, uncertainly, questioningly, disputably, irresolvedly, more...

Opposite:
certainly, definitely, surely, without doubt

Types:
skeptically, questioningly, dubiously, pessimistically, unenthusiastically, more...

Phrases:
nod doubtfully, walking doubtfully, more...

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Similar:
dubiously, doubtingly, dubitatively, questionably, dubitably, unsurely, uncertainly, questioningly, disputably, irresolvedly, more...

Opposite:
certainly, definitely, surely, without doubt

Types:
skeptically, questioningly, dubiously, pessimistically, unenthusiastically, more...

Phrases:
nod doubtfully, walking doubtfully, more...

Colors:
    gray,     charcoal,     pewter,     smoke,     cloud, more...



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