[syn: changeable, uncertain, unsettled]
6. not consistent or dependable;
- Example: "an uncertain recollection of events"
- Example: "a gun with a rather uncertain trigger"
7. ambiguous (especially in the negative);
- Example: "she spoke in no uncertain terms"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Uncertain \Un*cer"tain\ ([u^]n*s[~e]r"t[i^]n), a. [Pref. un- not
+ certain. Cf. Incertain.]
1. Not certain; not having certain knowledge; not assured in
mind; distrustful. --Chaucer.
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Man, without the protection of a superior Being, . .
. is uncertain of everything that he hopes for.
--Tillotson.
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2. Irresolute; inconsonant; variable; untrustworthy; as, an
uncertain person; an uncertain breeze.
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O woman! in our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please! --Sir W.
Scott.
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3. Questionable; equivocal; indefinite; problematical. "The
fashion of uncertain evils." --Milton.
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From certain dangers to uncertain praise. --Dryden.
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4. Not sure; liable to fall or err; fallible.
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Soon bent his bow, uncertain in his aim. --Dryden.
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Whistling slings dismissed the uncertain stone.
--Gay.
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Syn: See Precarious.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Uncertain \Un*cer"tain\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + certain; or fr.
uncertain, a.]
To make uncertain. [Obs.] --Sir W. Raleigh.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
uncertain
adj 1: lacking or indicating lack of confidence or assurance;
"uncertain of his convictions"; "unsure of himself and
his future"; "moving with uncertain (or unsure) steps";
"an uncertain smile"; "touched the ornaments with
uncertain fingers" [syn: uncertain, unsure,
incertain] [ant: certain(p), sure]
2: not established beyond doubt; still undecided or unknown; "an
uncertain future"; "a manuscript of uncertain origin"; "plans
are still uncertain"; "changes of great if uncertain
consequences"; "without further evidence his story must
remain uncertain" [ant: certain(p)]
3: not established or confirmed; "his doom is as yet unsealed"
[syn: unsealed, uncertain] [ant: certain, sealed]
4: not certain to occur; not inevitable; "everything is
uncertain about the army"; "the issue is uncertain" [ant:
certain, sure]
5: subject to change; "a changeable climate"; "the weather is
uncertain"; "unsettled weather with rain and hail and
sunshine coming one right after the other" [syn:
changeable, uncertain, unsettled]
6: not consistent or dependable; "an uncertain recollection of
events"; "a gun with a rather uncertain trigger"
7: ambiguous (especially in the negative); "she spoke in no
uncertain terms"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
219 Moby Thesaurus words for "uncertain":
Pyrrhonic, adrift, afloat, agnostic, alternating, ambiguous,
ambitendent, ambivalent, amorphous, amphibological, amphibolous,
at a loss, at loose ends, blear, bleared, bleary, blurred, blurry,
broken, capricious, careening, catchy, chancy, changeable,
changeful, choppy, confused, dark, desultory, deviable, deviative,
dicey, dim, disconnected, discontinuous, distrustful, dizzy,
double-minded, doubtful, doubting, dubious, eccentric, enigmatic,
equivocal, equivocatory, erratic, faint, fast and loose, feeble,
fence-sitting, fence-straddling, fickle, filmy, fitful, flickering,
flighty, flitting, fluctuating, foggy, freakish, from Missouri,
fuzzy, giddy, guttering, half-seen, half-visible, halting,
hazardous, hazy, herky-jerky, hesitant, hesitating, heteroclite,
iffy, ill-defined, immethodical, impetuous, impulsive, in doubt,
incalculable, inconsistent, inconspicuous, inconstant, indecisive,
indefinite, indemonstrable, indistinct, indistinguishable, infirm,
infirm of purpose, insecure, intermittent, intermitting, ironic,
irregular, irresolute, irresolved, irresponsible, jerky, leery,
low-profile, lurching, mazy, mercurial, merely glimpsed,
mistrustful, mistrusting, misty, moody, mugwumpian, mugwumpish,
multivocal, mutable, mysterious, nonuniform, obscure, of two minds,
out of focus, pale, patchy, polysemantic, polysemous, protean,
questionable, questioning, rambling, restless, risky, rocky, rough,
roving, scatterbrained, scrappy, scrupulous, semivisible, shadowy,
shaky, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling, shy, skeptical,
snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, speculative,
spineless, sporadic, spotty, staggering, suspecting, suspicious,
tottery, touch-and-go, treacherous, unaccountable, unclear,
unconfirmable, uncontrolled, unconvinced, undecided, undefined,
undependable, undetermined, undisciplined, undivinable, unequal,
uneven, unfixed, unforeseeable, unhealthy, unmethodical,
unmetrical, unpersuaded, unplain, unpredictable, unprovable,
unrecognizable, unregular, unreliable, unresolved, unrestrained,
unrhythmical, unsafe, unsettled, unsound, unstable,
unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsure,
unsystematic, untrusting, untrustworthy, unverifiable, vacillating,
vagrant, vague, variable, veering, vicissitudinary,
vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, wary, wavering,
wavery, wavy, wayward, weak, whimsical, wishy-washy, wobbling,
wobbly
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):
Uncertain, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 150
Housing Units (2000): 137
Land area (2000): 0.509950 sq. miles (1.320765 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.001216 sq. miles (0.003150 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.511166 sq. miles (1.323915 sq. km)
FIPS code: 74240
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 32.710040 N, 94.121893 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Uncertain, TX
Uncertain