🔄 Synonyms of "Uncertain"
23 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| ambiguous | Open to multiple interpretations. |
| ambivalent | Simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, motivations, or meanings. |
| dubious | (of a statement, matter, or thing) Arousing doubt; questionable; open to suspicion. |
| contingentnoun | An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something in the future. |
| hesitant | Tending to hesitate, wait, or proceed with caution or reservation. |
| unsettled | Not in a steady condition, uncertain, subject to change. |
| variablenoun | (mathematics) Having no fixed quantitative value. |
| insecure | Not comfortable or confident in oneself or in certain situations. |
| unsure | uncertain, ambivalent. |
| doubtfulnoun | Experiencing or showing doubt, skeptical. |
| iffy | Uncertain or chancy; risky. |
| unsafeverb | Not safe (various senses); dangerous. |
| gropingnoun | An act of groping; a grope. |
| indefinitenoun | Without limit; forever, or until further notice; not definite. |
| changeable | Capable of being changed. |
| unreliablenoun | Not reliable. |
| up in the air | (idiomatic) Not yet resolved, finished, answered, decided or certain. |
| chancynoun | Uncertain; risky; hazardous. |
| incertain | (obsolete) Not certain, uncertain. |
| undependable | Not dependable. |
| fluky | Alternative spelling of flukey. [Lucky.] |
| unsealed | Not having been sealed. |
| flukey | Lucky. |
↔️ Antonyms of "Uncertain"
Words with the opposite meaning.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Uncertain"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| incertain | (obsolete) Not certain, uncertain. |
| unsure | uncertain, ambivalent. |
| iffynoun | Uncertain or chancy; risky. |
| doubtful | Experiencing or showing doubt, skeptical. |
| dubious | (of a statement, matter, or thing) Arousing doubt; questionable; open to suspicion. |
| ambiguous | Open to multiple interpretations. |
| unsafe | Not safe (various senses); dangerous. |
| ambivalent | Simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, motivations, or meanings. |
| hesitant | Tending to hesitate, wait, or proceed with caution or reservation. |
| chancynoun | Uncertain; risky; hazardous. |
| insecure | Not comfortable or confident in oneself or in certain situations. |
| undependable | Not dependable. |
| unreliable | Not reliable. |
| indefinite | Without limit; forever, or until further notice; not definite. |
| unsettled | Not in a steady condition, uncertain, subject to change. |
| unsealed | Not having been sealed. |
| contingent | Possible or liable, but not certain, to occur. |
| variable | (mathematics) Having no fixed quantitative value. |
| changeable | Capable of being changed. |
| gropingnoun | An act of groping; a grope. |
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