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Certain   /sˈərtən/   Listen
Certain

adjective
1.
Definite but not specified or identified.  "To a certain degree" , "Certain breeds do not make good pets" , "Certain members have not paid their dues" , "A certain popular teacher" , "A certain Mrs. Jones"
2.
Having or feeling no doubt or uncertainty; confident and assured.  Synonym: sure.  "Was sure (or certain) she had seen it" , "Was very sure in his beliefs" , "Sure of her friends"  Antonyms: unsure, uncertain.
3.
Established beyond doubt or question; definitely known.  "It is certain that they were on the bus" , "His fate is certain" , "The date for the invasion is certain"  Antonym: uncertain.
4.
Certain to occur; destined or inevitable.  Synonym: sure.  "His fate is certain" , "In this life nothing is certain but death and taxes" , "He faced certain death" , "Sudden but sure regret" , "He is sure to win"  Antonym: uncertain.
5.
Established irrevocably.  Synonym: sealed.  Antonym: unsealed.
6.
Reliable in operation or effect.  Synonym: sure.  "A sure way to distinguish the two" , "Wood dust is a sure sign of termites"
7.
Exercising or taking care great enough to bring assurance.  Synonym: sure.  "Be sure to lock the doors"



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"Certain" Quotes from Famous Books



... unfavorable examples of his power, and have been generally, as yet, in places where all that is best in them is out of sight. I look to him, nevertheless, unless he lose himself in over-reverence for certain conventionalisms of the elder schools, as one of the probable renovators and correctors of whatever is failing or erroneous in the practice of ...
— Modern Painters Volume I (of V) • John Ruskin
... was no one there save the ticket agent, and he did not notice particularly. It is certain that he had no idea that in the black-haired man who went away was old ...
— A Woman at Bay - A Fiend in Skirts • Nicholas Carter
... politic, which either did not recognise this necessity, or attributed the disasters incurred to bad management. The man most trusted by the King fell a victim to the public hate. But, besides this, there arose—awakened by these events and in a certain analogy with what happened in France—the recollection of the rights which had been set aside by the accession of the house of Lancaster. Their representative, Richard Duke of York, had hitherto ...
— A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) • Leopold von Ranke
... And one is of an old half-witted sheep Which bleats articulate monotony, And indicates that two and one are three, That grass is green, lakes damp, and mountains steep: And, Wordsworth, both are thine: at certain times, Forth from the heart of thy melodious rhymes The form and pressure of high thoughts will burst; At other times-good Lord! I'd rather be Quite unacquainted with the A, B, C, Than write such hopeless rubbish as ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 4 (of 4) • Various
... In certain cases where there are several current pronunciations, the author has been forced to make a selection, arbitrarily. Thus a seaport in Greece, which has changed hands recently, has no less than five names. Its Greek name is pronounced Thessalonyi'ki, while other nations ...
— The World War and What was Behind It - The Story of the Map of Europe • Louis P. Benezet


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