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sure-enough
adjective as in actual
adjective as in factual
adjective as in guaranteed
adjective as in honest-to-goodness
adjective as in legal
Weak matches
- acknowledged
- allowed
- authorized
- card-carrying
- chartered
- clean
- condign
- decreed
- due
- enforceable
- enforced
- enjoined
- forensic
- granted
- innocent
- judged
- judicial
- just
- justifiable
- justified
- legalized
- legit
- licit
- on the level
- on the up and up
- ordained
- passed
- precedented
- prescribed
- protected
- right
- rightful
- sanctioned
- sound
- straight
- warranted
- within the law
adjective as in sincere
Weak matches
- 24-carat
- aboveboard
- actual
- artless
- bona fide
- dead-level
- dear
- devout
- faithful
- frank
- guileless
- honest-to-God
- honest-to-goodness
- like it is
- meant
- natural
- no-fooling
- no-nonsense
- on the level
- on the line
- on the up and up
- open
- plain
- pretensionless
- regular
- righteous
- saintly
- square
- true-blue
- unaffected
- undesigning
- undissembled
- unfeigned
- unpretentious
- up-front
- wholehearted
adjective as in substantial
adjective as in true
Strongest matches
adjective as in unquestionable
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- accurate
- authentic
- bona fide
- certain
- clear
- cold
- conclusive
- dependable
- down pat
- downright
- established
- faultless
- flat
- flawless
- for certain
- genuine
- incontestable
- incontrovertible
- indubitable
- irrefutable
- manifest
- no ifs ands or buts
- obvious
- pat
- patent
- perfect
- positive
- real
- reliable
- superior
- sure
- true
- undisputable
- undoubted
- unimpeachable
- veritable
- well-founded
- well-grounded
adjective as in very
adverb as in truly
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- accurately
- authentically
- beyond doubt
- beyond question
- confirmedly
- constantly
- correctly
- de facto
- devotedly
- factually
- faithfully
- firmly
- honorably
- in actuality
- in fact
- in reality
- in truth
- loyally
- precisely
- reliably
- righteously
- staunchly
- steadily
- truthfully
- unequivocally
- veraciously
- veritably
- with all one's heart
- with devotion
- without a doubt
adverb as in surely
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- admittedly
- beyond doubt
- beyond shadow of doubt
- come what may
- conclusively
- decidedly
- distinctly
- doubtlessly
- explicitly
- fixedly
- for certain
- indubitably
- infallibly
- irrefutably
- manifestly
- nothing else but
- positively
- rain or shine
- to be sure
- unequivocally
- unerringly
- unfailingly
- unmistakably
- unshakably
- with certainty
- without fail
adverb as in certainly
Strongest matches
adverb as in absolutely
Strongest matches
Example Sentences
"Well, that is a sure-enough sermon and a pretty good one, too," said MacLester, quite soberly.
"I know she has been married," I corrected; and then she gave me the sure-enough knock-out.
The hunters couldn’t get a shot, and some folks said ’twas a sure-enough ghost.
This narrow valley, with the steep hills rising on either side, is the sure-enough utterness of desolation; not a tree, not a shrub, not a blade of grass, not even a stingy little cactus.
True to her word to be a “sure-enough partner,” she was up bright and early and had her candies wrapped and packed before her breakfast was touched.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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