Uncertain: Definition and part of speech

Uncertain

  1. a. To make uncertain.
  2. a. Not certain; not having certain knowledge; not assured in mind; distrustful.
  3. a. Irresolute; inconsonant; variable; untrustworthy; as, an uncertain person; an uncertain breeze.
  4. a. Questionable; equivocal; indefinite; problematical.
  5. a. Not sure; liable to fall or err; fallible.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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