certain
Usage
What are other ways to say certain?
Certain, one of a handful of adjectives indicating full belief and trust that something is true, suggests that there are definite reasons that have freed one from doubt. Confident emphasizes the strength of the belief or the certainty of expectation felt. Positive implies emphatic certainty, which may even become overconfidence or dogmatism. Sure, the simplest and most general term, expresses mere absence of doubt.
Example Sentences
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Other factors, such as heightened curiosity about certain puzzles, could have influenced both dreaming and performance.
From Science Daily
When nationally prominent figures die, members of China’s top leadership and retired party grandees send wreaths and, in certain cases, personally attend the funerals.
“There is a certain amount of security I feel that I’ve already taken care of myself in that way,” Bovington says.
It is far from certain from what we have seen in the Premier League.
From BBC
Watching this team lose, or threaten to lose, big leads in games in recent seasons breeds a certain worry.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
