doubted

past tense of doubt
as in questioned
to have no trust or confidence in I doubt that you can do all that you say

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Recent Examples of doubted Yet many of these same executives doubted their leaders' ability to rise to the occasion. Vince Molinaro, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024 Albert Einstein had predicted such waves a century ago, but it was long doubted that instrumentation sensitive enough to confirm their existence could ever be created. L. Rafael Reif, Foreign Affairs, 23 Mar. 2017

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“Doubted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doubted. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.

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