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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US military demand for certain "heavy" rare earths far exceed commercial needs, Jason Bedford, visiting senior research scholar at the National University of Singapore's East Asian Institute, told AFP.
From Barron's
Wolf kills tend to cluster in certain parts of the landscape, such as flat valley bottoms where hunting is more successful.
From Science Daily
Liaw and Chang allegedly directed certain executives of a company based in Southeast Asia to place orders with Super Micro for servers with certain GPUs.
"We can create the conditions, but they have to exploit those conditions at a certain point," he said.
From BBC
The White House announced a 60-day waiver for certain shipping rules on Wednesday.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
