Usually means: Questionable authenticity, reliability, or morality.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word dubious:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. dubious: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dubious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dubious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dubious: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dubious: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dubious, dubious: Wordnik
  7. dubious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dubious: Wiktionary
  9. dubious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dubious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dubious: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dubious, dubious: Dictionary.com
  13. dubious: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dubious: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Dubious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. dubious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. dubious: Rhymezone
  18. dubious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. dubious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. dubious: Free Dictionary
  21. dubious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. dubious: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. dubious: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dubious: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dubious: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dubious: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See dubiously as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (of a statement, matter, or thing) Arousing doubt; questionable; open to suspicion.
adjective:  (of a person) In disbelief; wavering, uncertain, or hesitating in opinion; inclined to doubt; undecided.
adjective:  (chess, chiefly of an opening move) Generally considered imprecise or wrong, but not totally unplayable.

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