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Source: gcide
Uncertain \Un*cer"tain\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + certain; or fr.
uncertain, a.]

To make uncertain. [Obs.] --Sir W. Raleigh.

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Source: gcide
Uncertain \Un*cer"tain\ ([u^]n*s[~e]r"t[i^]n), a. [Pref. un- not
+ certain. Cf. {Incertain}.]

1. Not certain; not having certain knowledge; not assured in
mind; distrustful. --Chaucer.

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Man, without the protection of a superior Being, . .
. is uncertain of everything that he hopes for.
--Tillotson.

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2. Irresolute; inconsonant; variable; untrustworthy; as, an
uncertain person; an uncertain breeze.

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O woman! in our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please! --Sir W.
Scott.

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3. Questionable; equivocal; indefinite; problematical. "The
fashion of uncertain evils." --Milton.

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From certain dangers to uncertain praise. --Dryden.

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4. Not sure; liable to fall or err; fallible.

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Soon bent his bow, uncertain in his aim. --Dryden.

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Whistling slings dismissed the uncertain stone.
--Gay.

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Syn: See {Precarious}.

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Source: wn
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)}]
3: not established or confirmed; "his doom is as yet unsealed"
[syn: {unsealed}] [ant: {sealed}]
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"

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Source: moby thes
219 Moby Thesaurus words for "uncertain":
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


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Source: gazetteer
Uncertain, TX (city, FIPS 74240)
Location: 32.70856 N, 94.12249 W
Population (1990): 194 (148 housing units)
Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

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Source: gaz place
Uncertain, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000):
Housing Units (2000): 137
Land area (2000): 0.509950 sq. miles (1.320765 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.001216 sq. miles (0.003 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.511166 sq. miles (1.323915 sq. km)
FIPS code: 74240
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 32.710040 N, 94.121893 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Uncertain, TX
Uncertain

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