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Wordnet 3.0

ADVERB (2)

1. as supposed or expected;
- Example: "sure enough, he asked her for money again"

2. definitely or positively (`sure' is sometimes used informally for `surely');
- Example: "the results are surely encouraging"
- Example: "she certainly is a hard worker"
- Example: "it's going to be a good day for sure"
- Example: "they are coming, for certain"
- Example: "they thought he had been killed sure enough"
- Example: "he'll win sure as shooting"
- Example: "they sure smell good"
- Example: "sure he'll come"
[syn: surely, certainly, sure, for sure, for certain, sure enough, sure as shooting]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sure enough
    adv 1: as supposed or expected; "sure enough, he asked her for
           money again"
    2: definitely or positively (`sure' is sometimes used informally
       for `surely'); "the results are surely encouraging"; "she
       certainly is a hard worker"; "it's going to be a good day for
       sure"; "they are coming, for certain"; "they thought he had
       been killed sure enough"; "he'll win sure as shooting"; "they
       sure smell good"; "sure he'll come" [syn: surely,
       certainly, sure, for sure, for certain, sure
       enough, sure as shooting]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

124 Moby Thesaurus words for "sure enough":
   absolute, actual, apodictic, ascertained, attested, authentic,
   authenticated, bona fide, bound, candid, card-carrying,
   categorically true, certain, certified, clear, clear and distinct,
   clear as day, conclusive, confirmed, corroborated, decisive,
   definite, demonstrated, determinate, determined, dinkum,
   documentary, effectual, established, factual, following the letter,
   genuine, good, hard, historical, honest, honest-to-God,
   inartificial, indubitable, ineluctable, inevitable, lawful,
   legitimate, lifelike, literal, natural, naturalistic, necessary,
   not in error, objectively true, original, perfectly sure, positive,
   predestined, predetermined, proved, pure, real, realistic,
   rightful, simon-pure, simple, sincere, sterling, substantiated,
   sure, true, true as gospel, true to life, true to nature,
   true to reality, truthful, unadulterated, unaffected, unambiguous,
   unassumed, unassuming, uncolored, unconcocted, unconfuted,
   uncopied, uncounterfeited, undenied, undisguised, undisguising,
   undistorted, undoubted, unequivocal, unerroneous, unexaggerated,
   unfabricated, unfallacious, unfalse, unfanciful, unfeigned,
   unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unimagined, unimitated,
   uninvented, univocal, unmistakable, unmistaken, unpretended,
   unpretending, unqualified, unquestionable, unrefuted, unromantic,
   unsimulated, unspecious, unsynthetic, unvarnished, validated,
   veracious, verbal, verbatim, veridical, verified, verisimilar,
   veritable, very, word-for-word