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uncertain

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES an uncertain fate (= not clear, definite, or decided ) ▪ The Bill faces an uncertain fate in the Senate. face an uncertain/difficult future ▪ The company is facing an uncertain future. uncertain (= not clear or ...

Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
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 ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Uncertain is the first EP of the Irish band The Cranberries , produced by Pearse Gilmore, it was released in the autumn of 1991, having previously released cassette EPs under the name The Cranberry Saw Us. Uncertain was released by Xeric Records on both ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Not certain; unsure. 2 Not known for certain; questionable. 3 Not yet determined; undecided. 4 variable and subject to change. 5 fitful or unsteady. 6 unpredictable or capricious.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "of indeterminate time or occurrence," from un- (1) "not" + certain (adj.). Meaning "not fully confident" is recorded from late 14c. (implied in uncertainty ). Related: Uncertainly .

Usage examples of uncertain.

I was a sickly and precarious and tiresome and uncertain child, and lived mainly on allopathic medicines during the first seven years of my life.

No doubt it shows at the same time how uncertain Origen was as to the applicability of popular conceptions when he was dealing with the sphere of the Psychici.

Such is the construction of any choche employed to carry an Elder Architect, ambassador or other luminary about the uncertain streets of Ornice Olorun.

But such attribution is uncertain because skeletal remains are usually absent at tool sites.

We uncertain spellers, five or six ballet fans, sat in the gallery of the Stadttheater and looked on critically at the recital that the ballet master had ventured to stage with the help of Madame Lara.

A great part of his baronage held aloof, uncertain where their interests lay.

Even at this moment as he gazed on de Batz the greed and the cruelty in him were fighting one of those battles the issue of which is always uncertain in men of his stamp.

During the three or four days in question, Bernard lingered on at Baden, uncertain what to do or where to go, feeling as if he had received a sudden check-- a sort of spiritual snub--which arrested the accumulation of motive.

Gordon answered that his movements were very uncertain, and that he should be sorry to trouble Bernard to follow him about.

The result shows how uncertain are all speculations in regard to the manurial requirements of plants.

Preventive boat drew closer, the voices of the men hushed, growing more uncertain as the minutes ticked by with no mermaid song.

Ariadne, her arm flung out as if to push away the intervening air and impel herself forward, arrested by the charged glance that passes between Bacchus and herself, seemed by that very act to lose power, to be rendered uncertain, while Bacchus, his near nakedness easily outclassing her draped figure, demonstrates that he has no need to emphasize this act of possession.

Jeanie herself was the bonniest lassie in the whole town, but light-headed, and fonder of outgait and blether in the causey than was discreet of one of her uncertain parentage.

We know that to a depth of about a hundred miles the mantle consists predominantly of a type of rock known as peridotite, but what fills the space beyond is uncertain.

On a good day, which meant a day when the physios managed to goad her sufficiently, Catherine could manage one or two uncertain steps on callipers and crutches, rolling along like a caricature of a peg-legged sailor.