Que a categoria em ENGLISH - ETYMOLOGY
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Que a categoria em ENGLISH - PRONUNCIATION
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English - Pronunciation
* IPA(key): /ʌnˈsɜːtən/
* Rhymes: -ɜː(r)tən
- IPA(key): /ʌnˈsɜːtən/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(r)tən
Que a categoria em ENGLISH - ADJECTIVE
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English - Adjective
UNCERTAIN (_comparative_ MORE UNCERTAIN, _superlative_ MOST UNCERTAIN)
* Not certain; unsure.
* John Tillotson (1630-1694)
Man, without the protection of a superior Being, […] is UNCERTAIN of everything that he hopes for.
* Not known for certain; questionable.
_Tomorrow's weather is UNCERTAIN._
* Not yet determined; undecided.
* Variable and subject to change.
* Fitful or unsteady.
* 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, _Nobody_, chapter III:
Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few UNCERTAIN steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
* Unpredictable or capricious.
* Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
O woman! in our hours of ease, / UNCERTAIN, coy, and hard to please!
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* certain
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* uncertainly, uncertainty
uncertain (comparative more uncertain, superlative most uncertain)
- Not certain; unsure.
- Not known for certain; questionable.
- Not yet determined; undecided.
- Variable and subject to change.
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Fitful or unsteady.
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1914, Louis Joseph Vance, Nobody, chapter III:
- Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
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1914, Louis Joseph Vance, Nobody, chapter III:
- Unpredictable or capricious.
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Que a categoria em ENGLISH - ANAGRAMS
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World Bank Sees 'Fragile and 'Uncertain' in 2013
