Definition of Uncertain

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Uncertain

Not certain; not having certain knowledge; not assured in mind; distrustful.

Irresolute; inconsonant; variable; untrustworthy; as, an uncertain person; an uncertain breeze.

Questionable; equivocal; indefinite; problematical.

Not sure; liable to fall or err; fallible.

To make uncertain.

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Uncertain Quotations

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winston Churchill

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

The future is no more uncertain than the present.
Walt Whitman

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.
Margaret Mead

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Arthur Schopenhauer

To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.
Emma Goldman

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!
Joseph Addison

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
Anatole France

Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
Democritus

Uncertain Translations

uncertain in French is incertain
uncertain in German is entketten, unsicher
uncertain in Italian is incerto, malsicuro
uncertain in Latin is hesito (haesito), incertus
uncertain in Spanish is erratil, incierto

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