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certainadjective known but not nameda certain person told me that today is your birthday anonymous, given, one, some, unidentified, unnamed, unspecified particular, specific known, named, specified having or showing a mind free from doubtI'm certain that they'll arrive on time assured, clear, cocksure, confident, doubtless, implicit, positive, sanguine, sure self-assured, self-conceited, self-confidentdecisive, resolute, unfaltering, unhesitating, unquestioning, unwavering doubtful, dubious, uncertain, unsure hesitant, indecisive, vacillating, waveringdiffident, unassuming having been established and usually not subject to changea certain percentage of the profits will go to charity determinate, final, firm, fixed, flat, frozen, hard, hard-and-fast, inexpugnable, set, settled, stable nonadjustable, noncancelable, nonnegotiable, unchangeableconstant, steady, unchanging, uniform, unwaveringdefinite, exact, explicit, specificgiven, stated, stipulateddependable, good, reliable, responsible, safe, solid, sure, tried, tried-and-true, true, trustworthy, trusty adjustable, changeable, negotiableindefinite, open-ended, unspecifiedcapricious, changeful, flickery, fluctuating, fluid, inconstant, mercurial, mutable, temperamental, uncertain, unpredictable, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, variable, volatile impossible to avoid or evadeas he got older, the athlete began to feel the certain effects of the aging process on his body ineluctable, ineludible, inescapable, inevitable, necessary, sure, unavoidable, unescapable decided, definite, settledlikely, possible, probabledestined, fated, foreordained, predestined, predetermined, preordainedinexorable, relentless, unremitting, unstoppable in the bag, in the cards(also on the cards) avoidable, evadable, uncertain, unsure preventable(also preventible)doubtful, dubious, questionable, shaky, unclearundecided, unsettledundependable, unreliableimprobable, unlikely not likely to failchicken soup is grandma's certain cure for pretty much whatever ails you can't-miss, fail-safe, infallible, sure, surefire, unfailing dependable, reliabledeadly, unerring fallible doubtful, questionable, uncertain not capable of being challenged or proved wrongup to this point there's been no certain evidence that a crime has been committed accomplished, inarguable, incontestable, incontrovertible, indisputable, indubitable, irrefragable, irrefutable, positive, sure, unanswerable, unarguable, unchallengeable, undeniable, unquestionable unambiguous, unequivocalabsolute, clear, conclusive, decisive, definite, hands-downuncontested, uncontradicted, undisputed, unquestioned answerable, arguable, contradictable, controvertible, debatable, disputable, doubtable, moot, negotiable, problematic(also problematical), questionable, refutable controversial, debated, disputeddoubtful, dubious, iffy, inconclusive, indecisive, uncertainambiguous, equivocalacademic(also academical), hypothetical, speculative, theoretical(also theoretic) sure, certain, positive, cocksure mean having no doubt or uncertainty.sure usually stresses the subjective or intuitive feeling of assurance.felt sure that I had forgotten something certain may apply to a basing of a conclusion or conviction on definite grounds or indubitable evidence.police are certain about the cause of the fire positive intensifies sureness or certainty and may imply opinionated conviction or forceful expression of it.I'm positive that's the person I saw cocksure implies presumptuous or careless positiveness.you're always so cocksure about everything in the 13th century |