- 5. Counterpart.
Double-dealer, n. Deceiver, cheat, trickster, tricker.
Double-dealing, n. Deceit, duplicity, dissimulation, artifice, deception, fraud, dishonesty, trickery, Machiavelism.
Double-entendre, n. [English coinage for French double entente.]
- 1. Pun, équivoque, quirk, quibble, calembour, play upon words, paronomasia.
- 2. Indelicate pun, smutty équivoque.
Double-faced, a. Hypocritical, deceitful, knavish, dishonest, false, perfidious, double.
Double-headed, a. Bicipital, with two heads.
Double-hearted, a. Deceitful, treacherous, false-hearted, perfidious, false.
Double-minded, a. Unsettled, undetermined, undecided, changeable, fickle, vacillating, wavering.
Doublet, n.
- 1. Body-garment, jacket, jerkin.
- 2. One of a pair.
Doublets, n. pl. Pair, couple, two, twins.
Double upon. (Mil.) Enclose between two fires.
Doubling, n.
- 1. Fold, plait.
- 2. Artifice, trick, shift, stratagem.
Doubly, ad. Twice, double.
Doubt, v. n.
- 1. Hesitate, waver, be doubtful, be in suspense, withhold judgment, be undetermined, entertain doubts,
be in a state of uncertainty, not know what to think.
- 2. (Rare.) Suspect, fancy, apprehend.
Doubt, v. a.
- 1. Question, hesitate to believe, consider questionable, have doubts about.