"douteux" meaning in French

See douteux in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /du.tø/ Audio: Fr-Paris--douteux.ogg [Paris], LL-Q150 (fra)-DSwissK-douteux.wav Forms: douteuse [feminine], douteux [masculine, plural], douteuses [feminine, plural]
Etymology: From doute + -eux. Etymology templates: {{af|fr|doute|-eux}} doute + -eux Head templates: {{fr-adj}} douteux (feminine douteuse, masculine plural douteux, feminine plural douteuses)
  1. doubtful, uncertain, questionable (issue, outcome, date etc.)
    Sense id: en-douteux-fr-adj-XhUWQwAs
  2. dubious, questionable (morals, qualities etc.)
    Sense id: en-douteux-fr-adj-X6cL~OKs
  3. rather unclean (piece of clothing)
    Sense id: en-douteux-fr-adj-U129Z8XV Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header, French terms suffixed with -eux Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 5 32 63 Disambiguation of French terms suffixed with -eux: 6 27 67
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: doute, douter

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for douteux meaning in French (2.3kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "doute",
        "3": "-eux"
      },
      "expansion": "doute + -eux",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From doute + -eux.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "douteuse",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "douteux",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "douteuses",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "douteux (feminine douteuse, masculine plural douteux, feminine plural douteuses)",
      "name": "fr-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "doute"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "douter"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "doubtful, uncertain, questionable (issue, outcome, date etc.)"
      ],
      "id": "en-douteux-fr-adj-XhUWQwAs",
      "links": [
        [
          "doubtful",
          "doubtful"
        ],
        [
          "uncertain",
          "uncertain"
        ],
        [
          "questionable",
          "questionable"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "dubious, questionable (morals, qualities etc.)"
      ],
      "id": "en-douteux-fr-adj-X6cL~OKs",
      "links": [
        [
          "dubious",
          "dubious"
        ],
        [
          "questionable",
          "questionable"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "5 32 63",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "French entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "6 27 67",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "French terms suffixed with -eux",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "His dark suit was threadbare, his shirt rather unclean, his tie poorly tied.",
          "text": "Son complet sombre était élimé, sa chemise douteuse, la cravate mal nouée.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "rather unclean (piece of clothing)"
      ],
      "id": "en-douteux-fr-adj-U129Z8XV",
      "links": [
        [
          "unclean",
          "unclean"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/du.tø/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "Fr-Paris--douteux.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5c/Fr-Paris--douteux.ogg/Fr-Paris--douteux.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Fr-Paris--douteux.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Paris"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Paris)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-DSwissK-douteux.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/42/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-DSwissK-douteux.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-DSwissK-douteux.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/42/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-DSwissK-douteux.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-DSwissK-douteux.wav.ogg",
      "text": "Audio"
    }
  ],
  "word": "douteux"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "French 2-syllable words",
    "French adjectives",
    "French entries with incorrect language header",
    "French lemmas",
    "French terms suffixed with -eux",
    "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "French terms with audio links"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "doute",
        "3": "-eux"
      },
      "expansion": "doute + -eux",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From doute + -eux.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "douteuse",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "douteux",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "douteuses",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "douteux (feminine douteuse, masculine plural douteux, feminine plural douteuses)",
      "name": "fr-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "doute"
    },
    {
      "word": "douter"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "doubtful, uncertain, questionable (issue, outcome, date etc.)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "doubtful",
          "doubtful"
        ],
        [
          "uncertain",
          "uncertain"
        ],
        [
          "questionable",
          "questionable"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "dubious, questionable (morals, qualities etc.)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "dubious",
          "dubious"
        ],
        [
          "questionable",
          "questionable"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "French terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "His dark suit was threadbare, his shirt rather unclean, his tie poorly tied.",
          "text": "Son complet sombre était élimé, sa chemise douteuse, la cravate mal nouée.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "rather unclean (piece of clothing)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "unclean",
          "unclean"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/du.tø/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "Fr-Paris--douteux.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5c/Fr-Paris--douteux.ogg/Fr-Paris--douteux.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Fr-Paris--douteux.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Paris"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Paris)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-DSwissK-douteux.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/42/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-DSwissK-douteux.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-DSwissK-douteux.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/42/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-DSwissK-douteux.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-DSwissK-douteux.wav.ogg",
      "text": "Audio"
    }
  ],
  "word": "douteux"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable French dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.