Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| aleatoric | dependent on chance, luck, or an uncertain outcome. |
| aleatory | dependent on chance, luck, or an uncertain outcome; (noun) aleatoric music. |
| chancey | risky, uncertain. |
| charily | (Adv.) CHARY, cautious. |
| chariness | caution, wariness. |
| chary | discreetly cautious or sparing. |
| dicker | to haggle, to hesitate or dither. |
| dither | a state of irresolution (verb) to act nervously or indecisively |
| ditherer | one who dithers. |
| dithery | given to dithering. |
| doubt | a state of uncertainty; (verb) to be uncertain about. |
| doubtable | capable of being doubted. |
| doubtably | (Adv.) DOUBTABLE, capable of being doubted. |
| doubter | one that doubts. |
| doubtful | worthy of doubt (noun) something doubtful eg a starter in a race |
| doubtfully | (Adv.) DOUBTFUL, worthy of doubt. |
| doubtfulness | the state of being doubtful. |
| doubtingly | (Adv.) DOUBTING. |
| doubtless | without doubt. |
| doubtlessly | (Adv.) DOUBTLESS. |
| doubtlessness | the state of not being in doubt. |
| dubiety | doubtfulness. |
| dubiosity | the state of being doubtful. |
| dubious | doubtful. |
| dubiously | (Adv.) DUBIOUS, doubtful. |
| dubiousness | the state of being dubious. |
| dubitable | liable to be doubted; uncertain. |
| dubitably | (Adv.) DUBITABLE, liable to be doubted. |
| dubitancy | (Obs.) doubt. |
| dubitate | to doubt; to hesitate. |
| dubitation | the act of doubting. |
| dubitative | relating to doubt or incertitude. |
| dubitatively | (Adv.) DUBITATIVE, relating to doubt or incertitude. |
| falter | to hesitate. |
| falterer | one who falters. |
| falteringly | (Adv.) FALTERING. |
| hesitance | wavering, doubt. |
| hesitancy | wavering, doubt. |
| hesitant | tending to hesitate. |
| hesitantly | (Adv.) HESITANT, tending to hesitate. |
| hesitate | to hold back in uncertainty. |
| hesitater | one who hesitates. |
| hesitatingly | (Adv.) HESITATING. |
| hesitation | the action of hesitating. |
| hesitative | showing, or characterized by, hesitation. |
| hesitator | one who hesitates. |
| hesitatory | hesitating. |
| iffily | (Adv.) IFFY, dodgy, chancy. |
| iffy | (Coll.) dodgy, chancy IFFILY. |
| incertain | (Obs.) uncertain; doubtful. |
| indubious | (Arch.) not dubious. |
| indubitability | the quality of being beyond question or dispute or doubt. |
| indubitable | that cannot be doubted. |
| indubitably | (Adv.) INDUBITABLE, that cannot be doubted. |
| irresolution | vacillation. |
| mammer | (Shakesp.) to hesitate, stand muttering. |
| misfaith | (Arch.) distrust. |
| misgive | to make or be apprehensive or suspicious. |
| peradventure | by chance; (noun, obs.) doubt, uncertainty. |
| qualmless | having no qualms. |
| qualmy | full of qualms. |
| shillyshally | to be indecisive. |
| skepticism | an undecided, inquiring state of mind. |
| stoiter | (Scots) to stagger. |
| styte | (Scots) to stagger; of a fish, to leap above the surface of the water. |
| suspensive | tending to suspend, or to keep in suspense. |
| suspensively | (Adv.) SUSPENSIVE, tending to suspend, or to keep in suspense. |
| swither | (Scots) to be undecided. |
| tarrow | (Scots) to hesitate, be unwilling. |
| undoubtful | not doubtful. |
| undoubting | not doubting. |
| undoubtingly | (Adv.) UNDOUBTING, not doubting. |
| vacillatingly | (Adv.) VACILLATING. |
| vacillation | an act or instance of vacillating. |