When you're certain, you're sure about something. When you raise your hand to give the answer, you feel certain that you are correct.
Assured in mind; having no doubts; free from suspicions concerning.
Adjective S.
exercising or taking care great enough to bring assurance; "be certain to disconnect the iron when you are through"; "be sure to lock the doors"
Adjective
certain to occur; destined or inevitable; "he was certain to fail"; "his fate is certain"; "In this life nothing is certain but death and taxes"- Benjamin Franklin; "he faced certain death"; "sudden but sure regret"; "he is sure to win"
Adjective S.
capable of being depended on; "a quick and certain remedy"; "a sure way to distinguish the two"; "wood dust is a sure sign of termites"
Adjective
established irrevocably; "his fate is sealed"
a.
Assured in mind; having no doubts; free from suspicions
concerning.
a.
Determined; resolved; -- used with an infinitive.
a.
Not to be doubted or denied; established as a fact.
a.
Actually existing; sure to happen; inevitable.
a.
Unfailing; infallible.
a.
Fixed or stated; regular; determinate.
a.
Not specifically named; indeterminate; indefinite; one or
some; -- sometimes used independenty as a noun, and meaning certain
persons.
n.
Certainty.
n.
A certain number or quantity.
adv.
Certainly.
Certain
To make her certain of the sad event.
I myself am certain of you.2.
However, I with thee have fixed my lot, Certain to undergo like doom.3.
The dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.4.
Virtue that directs our ways Through certain dangers to uncertain praise.
Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all.5.
I have often wished that I knew as certain a remedy for any other distemper.6.
The people go out and gather a certain rate every day.7.
It came to pass when he was in a certain city.
About everything he wrote there was a certain natural grace und decorum.
Certain
Certain
Assured in mind; having no doubts; free from suspicions concerning.
Certainty.
Certainly.
Usage Examples
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.
A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
A lot of my humor centers on the act of telling jokes and I think this can prevent certain audiences from suspending their feeling of disbelief. It might piss a few people off, but I can't help it.
A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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Other Usage ExamplesA journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.
All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?
All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the '70s sounds nothing like the stuff from the '80s, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the '90s. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?
A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.
A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece, anywhere, is that it gets on YouTube and gets around. It's always something you're thinking about unconsciously.
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