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certain
adjective as in confident
Weak matches
assertive, assured, believing, calm, cocksure, questionless, sanguine, satisfied, secure, self-confident, unconcerned, undisturbed, undoubtful, undoubting, unperturbed, untroubled
adjective as in undoubtable, valid
Weak matches
ascertained, authoritative, conclusive, confirmable, demonstrable, destined, determined, establishable, evident, firm, fixed, guaranteed, having down pat, in the bag, incontrovertible, indubitable, infallible, irrefutable, known, on ice, plain, predestined, provable, reliable, salted away, set, sound, supreme, trustworthy, unambiguous, undoubted, unequivocal, unerring, unmistakable, verifiable
adjective as in fixed
Weak matches
assured, bound, certified, concluded, decided, determined, ensured, established, guaranteed, insured, set, settled, stated, stipulated, warranted
Example Sentences
If Subhash was a woman he could have had recourse to certain laws.
We all buy into a suspension of disbelief in certain areas of our lives.
That raises the question of whether certain players in the Syrian drama concluded that the time to roll the dice on “sudden political change” had arrived, and who might benefit most from this disruption.
It will allow regulator Ofcom to issue huge fines to social media companies if they're found to have certain types of illegal content on their platforms.
"His attraction is to a certain demographic who may not see the need to 'cancel' him," he says.
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When To Use
What are other ways to say certain?
Certain, one of a handful of adjectives indicating full belief and trust that something is true, suggests that there are definite reasons that have freed one from doubt. Confident emphasizes the strength of the belief or the certainty of expectation felt. Positive implies emphatic certainty, which may even become overconfidence or dogmatism. Sure, the simplest and most general term, expresses mere absence of doubt.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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