Word Meanings - UNCERTAINTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of UNCERTAINTY)

• Doubt
• Dubiousness
• dubitation
• scruple
• hesitation
• suspense
• distrust
• suspicion
• perplexity
• uncertainty
• ambiguity
• difficulty
• indecision
• Indiscrimination
• Indistinctness
• indistinction
• doubt
• confusion
• promiscuousness
• Peril
• Danger
• risk
• hazard
• jeopardy
• insecurity
• unsafety
• venture
• Quandary
• Hobble
• puzzle
• bewilderment
• baiting
• dilemma
• embarrassment
• Suspense
• Protraction
• solicitude
• cessation
• pause
• waiting
• intermission
• discontinuance
• abeyance
• stoppage
• indetermination

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of UNCERTAINTY)

• Decide
• determine
• resolve
• assent
• Enlighten
• instruct
• illumine

Related words: (words related to UNCERTAINTY)

• PUZZLEMENT
  The state of being puzzled; perplexity. Miss Mitford.
• WAITINGLY
  By waiting.
• PERILOUS
  1. Full of, attended with, or involving, peril; dangerous; hazardous; as, a perilous undertaking. Infamous hills, and sandy, perilous wilds. Milton. 2. Daring; reckless; dangerous. Latimer. For I am perilous with knife in hand. Chaucer.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• PUZZLE
  1. Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill in making. 2. The state of being puzzled; perplexity; as, to be in a puzzle.
• ASSENTATORY
  Flattering; obsequious. -- As*sent"a*to*ri*ly, adv.
• DUBIOUSNESS
  State of being dubious.
• PERILLA
  A genus of labiate herbs, of which one species (Perilla ocimoides, or P. Nankinensis) is often cultivated for its purple or variegated foliage.
• DILEMMA
  An argument which presents an antagonist with two or more alternatives, but is equally conclusive against him, whichever alternative he chooses. Note: The following are instances of the dilemma. A young rhetorician applied to an old sophist to be
• PUZZLEDOM
  The domain of puzzles; puzzles, collectively. C. Kingsley.
• INSTRUCTRESS
  A woman who instructs; a preceptress; a governess. Johnson.
• VENTURESOME
  Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n.
• HESITATION
  1. The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation. 2. A faltering in speech; stammering. Swift.
• STOPPAGE
  The act of stopping, or arresting progress, motion, or action; also, the state of being stopped; as, the stoppage of the circulation of the blood; the stoppage of commerce.
• ILLUMINER
  One who, or that which, illuminates.
• ASSENTER
  One who assents.
• DISTRUSTLESS
  Free from distrust. Shenstone.
• SCRUPLE
  twenty-fourth part of an ounce, a scruple, uneasiness, doubt, dim. of scrupus a rough or sharp stone, anxiety, uneasiness; perh. akin to 1. A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram. 2. Hence, a very small quantity; a particle. I will
• INDISTINCTION
  Want of distinction or distinguishableness; confusion; uncertainty; indiscrimination. The indistinction of many of the same name . . . hath made some doubt. Sir T. Browne. An indistinction of all persons, or equality of all orders, is far from being
• DOUBTFULLY
  In a doubtful manner. Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare. Dryden.
• DISVENTURE
  A disadventure. Shelton.
• PREINSTRUCT
  To instruct previously or beforehand. Dr. H. More.
• REDOUBTABLE
  Formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable hero;