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US
/ˈdaʊtɝ/
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[ UK /dˈaʊtɐ/ ]
[ UK /dˈaʊtɐ/ ]
NOUN
- someone who is doubtful or noncommittal about something
- someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs
How To Use doubter In A Sentence
- The challenge now is to convert the doubters into believers.
- This turns biography into hagiography: the subject isn't a mere artist working through his aesthetic ideas, he's Christ among the doubters and Pharisees.
- Scrounging time for faith nourishment can press a doubter into drivenness—so that in our wild attempts to make the most of every minute of our time, we may lose eternity. If I Really Believe, Why Do I Have These Doubts?
- It was the more provoking, as Bunce himself could write his name legibly, and one of those three doubting souls had for years boasted of like power, and possessed, indeed, a Bible, in which he was proud to show his name written by himself some thirty years ago -- "Job Skulpit;" but it was thought that Job Skulpit, having forgotten his scholarship, on that account recoiled from the petition, and that the other doubters would follow as he led them. The Warden
- An idealist tempered by realism, Holland was a doer, not a doubter.
- Brown insists his doubters are wrong, and that he will pursue the path of continued reform.
- The movie is brilliantly scripted by Aaron Sorkin, author of the courtroom drama A Few Good Men and the TV series The West Wing, and incisively directed by David Fincher, whose films (among them Se7en, Fight Club, The Game and Zodiac) show him to be a doubter of outward appearance, a questioner of accepted realities. The Social Network – review
- And yet, they are agnostics, doubters and explorers.
- Some doubters fear this news may not be as good as it appears.
- Yesterday's numbers were fair but may not satisfy the doubters who fear that the wobble has further to go. Times, Sunday Times