scruple

Meaning of scruple

noun
  1. A weight of 1/288 of a pound, that is, twenty grains or one third of a dram, about 1.3 grams (symbol: ℈).
  2. (by extension) A very small quantity; a particle.
  3. A doubt or uncertainty concerning a matter of fact; intellectual perplexity.
  4. Hesitation to act from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; doubt, hesitation or unwillingness due to motives of conscience.
  5. A Hebrew unit of time equal to 1/1080 hour.
verb
  1. To hesitate or be reluctant to act due to considerations of conscience or expedience.
  2. To excite scruples in; to cause to scruple.
  3. To regard with suspicion; to question.
  4. To question the truth of (a fact, etc.); to doubt; to hesitate to believe, to question.
    I do not scruple to admit that all the Earth seeth but only half of the Moon.

Information about scruple

  • The plural form of scruple is: scruples.
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Hyphenation of scruple

scru-ple

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • scruple is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

scruple synonyms

Meaning qualm:

qualm, misgiving

Anagrams of scruple

curpels, sculper

Words that rhyme with scruple

decuple, duodecuple, sescuple, subdecuple, duple, sesquiduple, subduple, nonuple, accouple, couple, decouple, discouple, intercouple, recouple, retrocouple, souple, thermocouple, uncouple, overscruple, quadruple, centuple, infinituple, octuple, quintuple, septuple, sextuple, suboctuple, subquintuple, subseptuple, subsextuple, tuple

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