Dubitable: alternatives and connections

Depending on some uncertain contingency; as, an aleatory contract.

a contract whose performance by one party depends on the occurrence of an uncertain contingent event (but if it is contingent on the o…

Doubtful or uncertain, particularly in respect to signification; capable of being understood in either of two or more possible senses;…

A phrase, discourse, or proposition, susceptible of two interpretations; and hence, of uncertain meaning. It differs from equivocation…

Obliged to answer; liable to be called to account; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as, an…

Concern or solicitude respecting some thing or event, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful…

The battle between the frogs and mice; -- a Greek parody on the Iliad, of uncertain authorship.

To render obscure by making the form or outline of confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and confused; a…

A nonphosphorized, nitrogenous substance, obtained from brain and nerve tissue by extraction with boiling alcohol. It is uncertain whe…

Not to be doubted or denied; established as a fact.

The supposed effect of such an agent; something that befalls, as the result of unknown or unconsidered forces; the issue of uncertain…

Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain.

A costly cloth, of uncertain material, used in the Middle Ages.

A clause in a contract, or agreement, which has for its object to suspend, to defeat, or in some way to modify, the principal obligati…

Capable of being, or liable to be, deprived; liable to be deposed.

Capable of being doubted; questionable.

(Literally, called equally one thing or the other; hence:) Having two significations equally applicable; capable of double interpretat…

Liable to fail, mistake, or err; liable to deceive or to be deceived; as, all men are fallible; our opinions and hopes are fallible.