Word Meanings - INCERTAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Uncertain; doubtful; unsteady. -- In*cer"tain*ly, adv. Very questionable and of uncertain truth. Sir T. Browne.

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• TRUTHY
  Truthful; likely; probable. "A more truthy import." W. G. Palgrave.
• DOUBTFULLY
  In a doubtful manner. Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare. Dryden.
• QUESTIONABLENESS
  The quality or state of being questionable, doubtful, or suspicious.
• UNCERTAINTY
  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.
• TRUTHLESS
  Devoid of truth; dishonest; dishonest; spurious; faithless. -- Truth"less*ness, n.
• UNCERTAINLY
  In an uncertain manner.
• TRUTH-LOVER
  One who loves the truth. Truth-lover was our English Duke. Tennyson.
• DOUBTFULNESS
  1. State of being doubtful. 2. Uncertainty of meaning; ambiguity; indefiniteness. " The doubtfulness of his expressions." Locke. 3. Uncertainty of event or issue. Bacon.
• TRUTHFUL
  Full of truth; veracious; reliable. -- Truth"ful*ly, adv. -- Truth"ful*ness, n.
• TRUTHNESS
  Truth. Marston.
• DOUBTFUL
  1. Not settled in opinion; undetermined; wavering; hesitating in belief; also used, metaphorically, of the body when its action is affected by such a state of mind; as, we are doubtful of a fact, or of the propriety of a measure. Methinks I should
• TRUTH
  1. The quality or being true; as: -- Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been; or shall be. Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, object of imitation, or the like. Plows,
• TRUTH-TELLER
  One who tells the truth. Truth-teller was our England's Alfred named. Tennyson.
• UNCERTAIN
  1. Not certain; not having certain knowledge; not assured in mind; distrustful. Chaucer. Man, without the protection of a superior Being, . . . is uncertain of everything that he hopes for. Tillotson. 2. Irresolute; inconsonant; variable;
• QUESTIONABLE
  1. Admitting of being questioned; inviting, or seeming to invite, inquiry. Thou com'st in such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee. Shak. 2. Liable to question; subject to be doubted or called in question; problematical; doubtful;
• UNQUESTIONABLE
  1. Not questionable; as, an unquestionable title. 2. Not inviting questions or conversation. Shak. -- Un*ques"tion*a*bly, adv.
• UNTRUTHFUL
  Not truthful; unveracious; contrary to the truth or the fact. -- Un*truth"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*truth"ful*ness, n.
• STRUTHIO
  A genus of birds including the African ostriches.
• STRUTHIAN
  Struthious.
• UNTRUTH
  1. The quality of being untrue; contrariety to truth; want of veracity; also, treachery; faithlessness; disloyalty. Chaucer. 2. That which is untrue; a false assertion; a falsehood; a lie; also, an act of treachery or disloyalty. Shak. Syn. --
• STRUTHIONES
  A division, or order, of birds, including only the African ostriches. In a wider sense, an extensive group of birds including the ostriches, cassowaries, emus, moas, and allied birds incapable of flight. In this sense it is equivalent to Ratitæ,
• MISDOUBTFUL
  Misgiving; hesitating. "Her misdoubtful mind." Spenser.
• STRUTHIOUS
  Of or pertaining to the Struthiones, or Ostrich tribe.