Dictionary Definition
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: unsure, incertain] [ant: certain(p),
certain(p)]
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 consquences"; "without further evidence his story must
remain uncertain" [ant: certain(p)]
4 not firm or secure; "balancing three boxes in
an uncertain pile"
5 not certain to occur; not inevitable;
"everything is uncertain about the army"; "the issue is uncertain"
[ant: certain]
6 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, unsettled]
7 not safe from danger or mishap; "faced an
uncertain future"; "an unsure existence" [syn: unsure]
8 not consistent or dependable; "an uncertain
recollection of events"; "a gun with a rather uncertain
trigger"
9 ambiguous (especially in the negative); "she
spoke in no uncertain terms"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɜː(r)tən
Adjective
- not known for certain; questionable
- not yet determined; undecided
- variable and subject to change
- fitful or unsteady
- unpredictable or capricious
Antonyms
Translations
not yet determined; undecided
- German: unbestimmt
variable and subject to change
- German: unbeständig, unsicher
fitful or unsteady
- German: unbeständig
unpredictable or capricious
- German: unbeständig
Extensive Definition
Uncertain EP was the first album of the Irish band The
Cranberries. It was released by Xeric
Records on both CD and 12" vinyl formats. Approximately 5,000
total copies of "Uncertain" were ever produced. All lyrics by
Dolores
O'Riordan, all music by Dolores
O'Riordan / Noel
Hogan.
Track listing
- Uncertain – 3:07
- Nothing Left At All – 3:55
- Pathetic Senses – 3:37
- Them – 3:42
uncertain in Italian: Uncertain EP
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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