uncertainty
uncertainty is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- according
- accordingly
- adventitious
- agent
- and
- are
- attitude
- attribution
- being
- bewilder
- blind
- capricious
- case
- causation
- certain
- circumstance
- circumstantial
- college
- conceal
- conditional
- conditionally
- conjunctive
- context
- contingency
- contingent
- crisis
- critical
- deceive
- dependence
- desultory
- emergence
- emergency
- environment
- error
- event
- exigency
- extrinsic
- false
- fitful
- footing
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is uncertainty.
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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