noun
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(with "the") Something uncertain.
adjective
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Not certain; unsure.
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Not known for certain; questionable.
example
Tomorrow's weather is uncertain.
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Not yet determined; undecided.
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Variable and subject to change.
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Fitful or unsteady.
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Unpredictable or capricious.
Examples of uncertain in a Sentence
He was silent, uncertain how to answer.
She'd seemed uncertain and scared, though.
She held up her arm, uncertain how to release it.
Deidre clenched her fists, uncertain what game the deity played with her.
She entered the bedroom quietly to see Toby awake and trying to get an uncertain Lankha to play with his stuffed animals.
Dean was uncertain how to respond.
They both agreed it was further evidence that he was involved in the death of Billy Langstrom, but they remained uncertain about his involvement with Martha's bones.
She cut his rope, figuring on hooking back up with that Ryland fellow but then his girlfriend showed up and in no uncertain terms pointed out why that was a dead end.
Uncertain what to do with either, she kept them.
Uncertain if she understood him or not, Deidre studied him.
Evelyn left Kiera's room with a frown, uncertain how to make everything up to her friend.
She looked away, uncertain what to say.
Gabe nodded, uncertain if he should be relieved she wasn't rejoicing to be away from him or worried that she was unhappy.
It stared at her through green eyes, and she frowned, uncertain why the sight of the creature bothered her.
Nishani at once looked uncertain again, her frame tense.
She frowned, uncertain what to think of his story.
It may be assigned to 25 B.C. The dates of the publication of the rest are uncertain, but none of them was published before 24 B.C., and the, last not before 16 B.C. The unusual length of the second one (1402 lines) has led Lachmann and other critics to suppose that it originally consisted of two books, and they have placed the beginning of the third book at ii.
The date of his death is uncertain, but he was certainly alive about 1125.
Biagio has been built, is uncertain.'
To the situation defined by concordat, however, succeeds another situation, more or less uncertain and more or less strained, in which the two powers legislate separately on mixed matters, sometimes not without provoking conflicts.
Attempts have been made, principally founded on some remarks of Huygens, to show that Descartes had learned the principles of refraction from the manuscript of a treatise by Willebrord Snell, but the facts are uncertain; and, so far as Descartes founds his optics on any one, it is probably on the researches of Kepler.
The mud brought down by it, calculated at 7150 lb an hour at Bagdad, is not deposited in marshes to form alluvium, as in the case of the Euphrates, but although in flood time the river becomes at places an inland sea, rendering navigation extremely difficult and uncertain, the bulk of the mud is deposited in banks, shoals and islands in the bed of the river, and is finally carried out into the Persian Gulf.
His nationality is uncertain, but Zosimus, Eunapius and Sulpicius Alexander (a GalloRoman historian quoted by Gregory of Tours) all refer to him as a Frank.
His parentage and the date of his birth are uncertain.
Even the name Levite itself is of uncertain origin.
The belief of Socrates is uncertain.
During the first six years of federation there were five ministries; the tenure of office under the threeyearly system was naturally uncertain, and this uncertainty was reflected in the proposals of whatever ministry was in office.
The date of his death is uncertain, but it must have been at least six or seven years later than the council of Chalcedon (451).
But the cost of effecting a repair still remains a very uncertain quantity, success being dependent on quiet conditions of sea and weather.
The origin of the name Aegean is uncertain.
Sella, uncertain of the loyalty of the Right, challenged a vote on the immediate discussion of further financial reforms, and on the 23rd of June was overthrown by a coalition of the Left under Depretis with a part of the Right under Minghetti and the Tuscan Centre under Correnti.
On the 29th of October, however, Austria abandoned her military posts in the sandjak of Novibazar, and the frontier between Austria and Turkey, formerly an uncertain one, which left Austria a half-open back door to the Aegean, was now a distinct line of demarcation.
The exact derivation and meaning of the name is somewhat uncertain.
It is doubly uncertain.
The truth is, that all truth is uncertain !
It is uncertain whether any of the names of the islands given by Ptolemy ought to be attached to the Andamans; yet it is probable that his name itself is traceable in the Alexandrian geographer.
The age of this building is very uncertain; it has been assigned to dates ranging from the 1st to the 4th century A.D.
The metropolitans had peculiars within the dioceses of their comprovincials wherever they had residences or manors, and some whose origin is uncertain, e.g.
The etymology of the word Pali is uncertain.
The origin and the exact nature of this religious movement are alike uncertain.
Other undoubted Dicotyledons, though of uncertain affinity, of similar age have now been detected in North America.
Himilco, a contemporary of Hanno, was charged with an expedition along the west coast of Iberia northward, and as far as the uncertain references to this voyage can be understood, he seems to have passed the Bay of Biscay and possibly sighted the coast of England.
Their fate was long uncertain.
One of the greatest builders among them was Untas -GAL (the pronunciation of the second element in the name is uncertain).
Very important for the study of Midrashic literature are the Yalgut (gleaning) Shim`oni, on the whole Bible, the Yalqut Mekhiri, on the Prophets, Psalms, Proverbs and Job, and the Midrash ha-gadhol, 2 all of which are of uncertain but late date and preserve earlier material.
Until the accession to power of President Barclay in 1904 (he was re-elected in 1907), the AmericoLiberian government on the coast had very uncertain relations with the indigenous population, which is well armed and tenacious of local independence.
The approximate revenue for 1906 was £65,000, and the expenditure about £60,000, but some of the revenue was still collected in paper of uncertain value.
In practice its operation is far more uncertain.
Compound locomotives have been built by various designers, but opinion is still uncertain whether any commercial economy is obtained by their use.
The interpretation of the rite is uncertain; it may perhaps be connected with agrarian rites.