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Definition of Incertain
1. Adjective. Lacking or indicating lack of confidence or assurance. "Touched the ornaments with uncertain fingers"
Attributes: Certainty, Assurance, Authority, Confidence, Self-assurance, Self-confidence, Sureness
Similar to: Ambivalent, Doubtful, Dubious, Groping
Antonyms: Certain, Sure
Derivative terms: Uncertainness
Definition of Incertain
1. n. Uncertain; doubtful; unsteady.
Definition of Incertain
1. Adjective. uncertain ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incertain
Literary usage of Incertain
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1889)
"... infamous crime unless on presentment or indictment of a grand jury,"1 except
incertain cases, applies only to prosecutions tarn as well as indictment. ..."
2. The Commentaries, Or Reports of Edmund Plowden: ... Containing Divers Cases by Edmund Plowden (1816)
"And there it is held, In. Ч\. that if onek makes a Lease for so many Years as JS
shall'name, now this is incertain at the Beginning; but after JS shall have ..."
3. A New System of Arithmetick Theorical and Practical: Wherein the Science of by Alexander Malcolm (1730)
"As to the incertain Decimals, ... that tho' no incertain Deci-nal can ever arife
from any finite ..."
4. Reports of Adjudged Cases in the Courts of Chancery, King's Bench, Common by Michael Nolan, John Strange, Great Britain Courts (1782)
"Skinner 666. though the verdict was fo incertain, that it was impracticable to
determine either way, for want of finding who {truck ..."
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