Certain
Assured in mind; having no doubts; free from suspicions concerning.
Determined; resolved; -- used with an infinitive.
Not to be doubted or denied; established as a fact.
Actually existing; sure to happen; inevitable.
Unfailing; infallible.
Fixed or stated; regular; determinate.
Not specifically named; indeterminate; indefinite; one or some; -- sometimes used independenty as a noun, and meaning certain persons.
Certainty.
A certain number or quantity.
Certainly.
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Certain Quotations
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
Oscar Wilde
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
Mark Twain
When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
Mark Twain
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
Mark Twain
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin Franklin
Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
Benjamin Franklin
Certain Translations
certain in Danish is sikker
certain in Dutch is gewis, zeker, vast, stellig
certain in Finnish is varma
certain in German is sicher
certain in Hungarian is egyes, bizonyos
certain in Italian is sicuramente, sicuro
certain in Latin is liquidus, certus
certain in Norwegian is sikker, viss
certain in Portuguese is certo
certain in Spanish is fijaciono
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