meragukan

Meragukan is a Indonesian verb meaning to cast doubt on the truth or reliability of something, or to doubt something itself. It is formed from the root ragu (to doubt) with the prefix me-, producing a transitive verb that often takes an object, as in meragukan kebenaran suatu pernyataan. The noun form keraguan denotes the state or feeling of doubt.

In usage, meragukan describes statements, claims, sources, or situations that are not clearly credible. Examples include meragukan kebenaran berita, meragukan kredibilitas saksi, or meragukan klaim tersebut. The passive construction diragukan is also common, meaning that something is being doubted by others, as in kebenaran berita itu diragukan. Meragukan is typically employed in formal, media, or analytical contexts to indicate a lack of certainty or reliability rather than a belief in outright falsehood.

Semantically, meragukan implies a level of doubt that warrants verification or evidence. It is often paired with verbs of verification or credibility, such as memverifikasi, membuktikan, or memastikan. It can also be used with phrases like menimbulkan keraguan (to raise doubts) to describe effects on confidence or trust. While meragukan can be used to describe something with doubt, it is less common to use it to characterize a person directly; more natural is to describe the credibility of a person’s statements or sources as diragukan, or to say that a person’s credibility meragukan in a given context.

See also keraguan, kredibilitas, verifikasi.