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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That could speed up certain computations by orders of magnitude.
From Barron's
A healthy national culture doesn’t require reminders that certain histories matter.
Iger, 74, was ready to go, and the process to find his successor was certain to go under the microscope.
From Los Angeles Times
Moira responds to her adult son’s certain presumption that parents are supposed to put their children first with a firm dismissal.
From Salon
Under the proposed agreements, the nations will work together to identify critical minerals necessary for certain industries and develop policies to encourage their mining and processing into products like rare earth magnets, U.S. officials said.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
