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abroad, adrift, afraid to say, ambiguous, ancipitous, apocryphal, astray, at a loss, at a nonplus, at fault, at one's wit's end, at sea, casual, changeable, confused, contingent, contingent on, controvertible, debatable, deceptive, dependent on, dependent on circumstances, disputable, distracted, distraught, distrustful of, doubtful, doubting, dubious, enigmatic, equivocal, evasive, experimental, fallacious, fallible, false, fine-spun, hard to believe, hypothetical, ignorant, illusive, illusory, in a cloud, in a maze, in a state of uncertainty, in question, in suspense, inconceivable, incredible, incredulous as to, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, jesuitical, lost, mebby-scales, minimifidian, mystic, not to be believed, occasional, open to discussion, open to doubt, open to suspicion, oracular, out of one's reckoning, overrefined, paradoxical, perplexing, pettifogging, plausible, plausive, precarious, problematical, puzzled, questionable, quibbling, shy of, skeptical as to, slippery, sophistical, specious, staggering, subject to, suspect, suspicious, suspicious of, ticklish, unascertained, unauthentic, unauthenticated, unauthoritative, unbelieving, uncertain, unconfirmed, uncounted, undecided, undefinable, undefined, undemonstrable, undemonstrated, undeserving of belief, undetermined, unreliable, unsettled, untold, untrustworthy, unworthy of belief, vague
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| Concept: | Uncertainty. |
| Category: | Degrees of Evidence |
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uncertainty, incertitude, doubt; doubtfulness; dubiety, dubitation, dubitancy, dubitousness., hesitation, suspense; perplexity, embarrassment, dilemma, bewilderment; timidity (fear); vacillation; diaporesis, indetermination., vagueness; haze, fog; obscurity (darkness); ambiguity (double meaning); contingency, double contingency, possibility upon a possibility; open question (question); onus probandi; blind bargain, pig in a poke, leap in the dark, something or other; needle in a haystack, needle in a bottle of hay; roving commission., precariousness; fallibility.
-verbs
be uncertain; wonder whether., lose the clue, lose the clew, scent; miss one's way., not know what to make of (unintelligibility), not know which way to turn, not know whether one stands on one's head or one's heels; float in a sea of doubt, hesitate, flounder; lose oneself, lose one's head; muddle one's brains., render uncertain; put out, pose, puzzle, perplex, embarrass; confuse, confound; bewilder, bother, molder, addle the wits, throw off the scent, ambiguas in vulgus spargere voces; keep in suspense., doubt (disbelieve); hang in the balance, tremble in the balance; depend.
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uncertain; casual; random (aimless); changeable., doubtful, dubious; indecisive; unsettled, undecided, undetermined; in suspense, open to discussion; controvertible; in question (inquiry)., vague; indeterminate, indefinite; ambiguous, equivocal; undefined, undefinable; confused (indistinct); mystic, oracular; dazed., perplexing; enigmatic, paradoxical, apocryphal, problematical, hypothetical; experimental., fallible, questionable, precarious, slippery, ticklish, debatable, disputable; unreliable, untrustworthy.
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pendente lite; sub spe rati.
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Heaven knows; who can tell? who shall decide when doctors disagree? ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces.
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| Antonyms: | certainty |
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| Concept: | Wonder. |
| Category: | 4. Contemplative Affections |
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wonder, marvel; astonishment, amazement, wonderment, bewilderment; amazedness; admiration, awe; stupor, stupefaction; stound, fascination; sensation; surprise (inexpectation)., note of admiration; thaumaturgy(sorcery).
-verbs
wonder, marvel, admire; be surprised; start; stare; open one's eyes, rub one's eyes, turn up one's eyes; gloar; gape, open one's mouth, hold one's breath; look aghast, stand aghast, stand agog; look blank (disappointment); tomber des nues; not believe one's eyes, not believe one's ears, not believe one's senses., not be able to account for (unintelligible); not know whether one stands on one's head or one's heels., surprise, astonish, amaze, astound; dumfound, dumfounder; startle, dazzle; daze; strike, strike with wonder, strike with awe; electrify; stun, stupefy, petrify, confound, bewilder, flabbergast, stagger, throw on one's beam ends, fascinate, turn the head, take away one's breath, strike dumb; make one's hair stand on end, make one's tongue cleave to the roof of one's mouth; make one stare., take by surprise (be unexpected)., be wonderful; beggar description, beggar the imagination, baffle description; stagger belief.
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surprised; aghast, all agog, breathless, agape; open-mouthed; awestruck, thunderstruck, moonstruck, planet-struck; spellbound; lost in amazement, lost in wonder, lost in astonishment; struck all of a heap, unable to believe one's senses, like a duck ion thunder., wonderful, wondrous; surprising; unexpected; unheard of; mysterious (inexplicable); miraculous. indescribable, inexpressible, ineffable; unutterable, unspeakable., monstrous, prodigious, stupendous, marvelous; inconceivable, incredible; inimaginable, unimaginable; strange (uncommon); passing strange., striking; overwhelming; wonder-working.
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wonderfully; fearfully; for a wonder, in the name of wonder; strange to say; mirabile dictu, mirabile visu; to one's great surprise., with wonder, with gaping mouth; with open eyes, with upturned eyes.
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vox faucibus haesit; one's hair standing on end.
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| Antonyms: | expectance (absence of wonder) |
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| Concept: | Incredulity. |
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incredulousness, incredulity; skepticism, pyrrhonism; want of faith (irreligion)., suspiciousness; scrupulosity; suspicion (unbelief)., unbeliever, skeptic; misbeliever; pyrrhonist; heretic (heterodox).
-verbs
be incredulous; distrust (disbelieve); refuse to believe; shut one's eyes to, shut one's ears to; turn a deaf ear to; hold aloof, ignore, nullis jurare in verba magistri.
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incredulous, skeptical, unbelieving, inconvincible; hard of belief, shy of belief, disposed to doubt, indisposed to believe; suspicious, scrupulous, distrustful., hard to believe.
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| Antonyms: | credulity |
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| Concept: | Irresolution. |
| Category: | 1. Acts of volition |
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irresolution, infirmity of purpose, indecision; indetermination, undetermination; unsettlement; uncertainty; demur, suspense; hesitating, hesitation, hesitancy; vacillation; changeableness; fluctuation; alternation (oscillation); caprice., fickleness, levity, legerete; pliancy (softness); weakness; timidity; cowardice; half measures., waverer, ass between two bundles of hay; shuttlecock, butterfly; wimp; doughface [U.S.].
-verbs
be irresolute; hang in suspense, keep in suspense; leave "ad referendum"; think twice about, pause; dawdle (inactivity); remain neuter; dillydally, hesitate, boggle, hover, dacker, hum and haw, demur, not know one's own mind; debate, balance; dally with, coquet with; will and will not, chaser-balancer; go halfway, compromise, make a compromise; be thrown off one's balance, stagger like a drunken man; be afraid; let "I dare not" wait upon "I would" [Macbeth]; falter, waver, vacillate; change; retract; fluctuate; pendulate; alternate (oscillate); keep off and on, play fast and loose; blow hot and cold (caprice)., shuffle, palter, blink; trim.
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irresolute, infirm of purpose, double-minded, half-hearted; undecided, unresolved, undetermined; shilly-shally; fidgety, tremulous; hesitating; off one's balance; at a loss (uncertain)., vacillating; unsteady (changeable); unsteadfast, fickle, without ballast; capricious; volatile, frothy; light, lightsome, lightminded; giddy; fast and loose., weak, feeble-minded, frail; timid, wimpish, wimpy; cowardly; dough-faced [U.S.]; facile; pliant (soft); unable to say "no", easygoing, revocable, reversible.
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irresolutely; irresolved, irresolvedly; in faltering accents; off and on; from pillar to post; seesaw.
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| Antonyms: | resolution, obstinacy |
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