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Definition of Certain
1. Adjective. Definite but not specified or identified. "A certain Mrs. Jones"
2. Adjective. Having or feeling no doubt or uncertainty; confident and assured. "Sure of her friends"
Attributes: Certainty, Assurance, Authority, Confidence, Self-assurance, Self-confidence, Sureness
Similar to: Confident, Convinced, Positive
Antonyms: Uncertain, Unsure
Derivative terms: Sureness
3. Adjective. Established beyond doubt or question; definitely known. "The date for the invasion is certain"
Similar to: Definite, Indisputable, Sure, Sure As Shooting
Antonyms: Uncertain
4. Adjective. Certain to occur; destined or inevitable. "He is sure to win"
Similar to: Bound, Destined, Doomed, Fated, Foreordained, Predestinate, Predestined, In For
Also: Predictable
Antonyms: Uncertain
5. Adjective. Established irrevocably. "His fate is sealed"
6. Adjective. Reliable in operation or effect. "Wood dust is a sure sign of termites"
7. Adjective. Exercising or taking care great enough to bring assurance. "Be sure to lock the doors"
Definition of Certain
1. a. Assured in mind; having no doubts; free from suspicions concerning.
2. n. Certainty.
3. adv. Certainly.
Definition of Certain
1. Adjective. Sure, positive, not doubting. ¹
2. Determiner. Having been determined but unspecified. The quality of some particular subject or object which is known by the speaker to have been specifically singled out among similar entities of its class. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Certain
1. absolutely confident [adj -TAINER, -TAINEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Certain
Literary usage of Certain
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1875)
"Amongst men who have lived free long before they became equal, the tendencies
derived from free institutions combat, to a certain extent, the propensities ..."
2. The Constitution of the United States of America: With an Alphabetical by William Hickey, United States (1854)
"AN ACT for giving effect to certain treaty stipulations between this and foreign
governments, for the apprehension and delivering up of certain offenders. ..."
3. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"... anil Kiews who were in personal attendance on their masters, though not at
all respecting the Mercuries, yet of certain mutilations of other images ..."
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