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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Uncertain \Un*cer"tain\, adjective [Pref. un- + certain. Cf. {Incertain}.]
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; untrustworthy; as, an uncertain person; an uncertain breeze.
O woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please! --Sir W. Scott.
3. Questionable; equivocal; indefinite; problematical. ''The fashion of uncertain evils.'' --Milton.
From certain dangers to uncertain praise. --Dryden.
4. Not sure; liable to fall or err; fallible.
Soon bent his bow, uncertain in his aim. --Dryden.
Whistling slings dismissed the uncertain stone. --Gay.
Syn: See {Precarious}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Uncertain \Un*cer"tain\, verb (used with an object) [1st pref. un- + certain; or fr. uncertain, adjective] To make uncertain. [Obs.] --Sir W. Raleigh.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
uncertain
adjective
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"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [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
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [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)
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Uncertain, TX -- U.S. city in Texas Population (2000): 150 Housing Units (2000): 137 Land area (2000): 0.509950 sq. miles (1.320765 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.001216 sq. miles (0.003150 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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