uncertain
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ʌnˈsɜːtən/
uncertain
- Not certain; unsure.
- Man, without the protection of a superior Being, […] is uncertain of everything that he hopes for.
- Not known for certain; questionable.
- Tomorrow's weather is uncertain.
- Not yet determined; undecided.
- Variable and subject to change.
- Fitful or unsteady.
- 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter III, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, OCLC 40817384 ↗:
- Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
- Unpredictable or capricious.
- 1808 February 21, Walter Scott, “(please specify the introduction or canto number, or chapter name)”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: Printed by J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, OCLC 270129616 ↗:
- O woman! in our hours of ease, / Uncertain, coy, and hard to please!
- French: incertain
- German: ungewiss, unsicher
- Portuguese: incerto
- Russian: неопределённый
- Spanish: incierto
- French: incertain
- German: unbestimmt
- Portuguese: incerto, indeterminado
- Russian: неопределённый
- Spanish: incierto
- French: incertain
- German: unbeständig, unsicher
- Portuguese: incerto
- Spanish: incierto
- German: unbeständig
- Russian: неусто́йчивый
- German: unbeständig
- Russian: непредсказу́емый
- (with "the") Something uncertain.
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