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)
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. - DUBIOUSNESS
State of being dubious. - ASSENTATORY
Flattering; obsequious. -- As*sent"a*to*ri*ly, adv. - 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;