Synonyms of doubted

doubted

verb

past tense of doubt

as in questioned

to have no trust or confidence in

I doubt that you can do all that you say

Synonyms & Similar Words

• questioned
• suspected
• distrusted
• mistrusted
• misdoubted
• disbelieved
• discounted
• negated
• discredited

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• trusted
• relied (on or upon)
• counted (on or upon)
• depended (on or upon)
• banked (on or upon)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of doubted

At Telluride, Fielder said the filmmakers initially doubted Seyfried would want to participate. — Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026

The event silenced critics who doubted the practicality of using ammonia as a zero-carbon fuel at sea. — Muskan Bhatia, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2026

Gilbert doubted his father would have recognized Shapiro walking around on set. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 15 Oct. 2026

Americans at the republic’s founding debated that premise — and doubted what the lesson might be. — Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2026

The long delay before Davis was charged did not mean Las Vegas investigators doubted his culpability, DiGiacomo said. — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2026

Bahdanau quietly doubted their potential to achieve anything like human-level intelligence, but his adviser, the computer scientist Yoshua Bengio, and the postdoc on the project, Kyunghyun Cho, were believers. — Quanta Magazine, 12 Oct. 2026

France’s debt-to-GDP ratio is expected to climb to 122% next year from 119% this year, and the government’s latest plan failed to halt the surge in bond yields as investors doubted its credibility. — Jason Ma, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2026

But some in the newsroom doubted the integrity of Bragg’s methods. — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2026