undoubting
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5.9
- adjective
- /ʌnˈdaʊtɪŋ/
- The scientist was undoubting in his conclusions after years of research.
Examples
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With an undoubting smile, she welcomed her friends into her home.
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He had the look very young men tend to have in photographs—confident, undoubting, happily blind to the future.
Fiction book (1993) -
Dawkins' transformation into an aggressive proselytizer for his undoubting and absolutist version of atheism confirms this conclusion.
Blog text (30) -
Her undoubting belief in herself helped her achieve her goals.
Synonyms
96
3.0
Being sure you can do something well
24
5.8
Being firm in belief or support that does not change
20
4.1
Confident and steady in voice or movement
13
3.2
Feeling sure about your own abilities and worth
5
4.7
Accepting what someone says without any doubt
5
6.8
Being completely sure about something even when you are wrong
2
4.8
Very strong belief or feeling that cannot be changed
Completely certain that something is true
Antonyms
How Confident
Surface Forms
Morphology
undoubting = doubting (transparent) = un + doubt + ing
Formed by negation prefix 'un-' attached to 'doubting' (doubt + -ing); meaning 'not doubting' is directly predictable.
Etymology
The word undoubting starts with un- meaning 'not' and the part doubt meaning 'to be unsure', so undoubting describes someone who is 'not unsure' and completely confident.