Assured vs Uncertain - What's the difference?
assured | uncertain |
(assure)
Guaranteed
Confident.
* {{quote-news
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, date=December 15
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, title=Shamrock Rovers 0 - 4 Tottenham
, work=BBC Sport
Not certain; unsure.
*(John Tillotson) (1630-1694)
*:Man, without the protection of a superior Being,is uncertain of everything that he hopes for.
Not known for certain; questionable.
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Not yet determined; undecided.
Variable and subject to change.
Fitful or unsteady.
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*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
Unpredictable or capricious.
*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:O woman! in our hours of ease, / Uncertain , coy, and hard to please!
As adjectives the difference between assured and uncertain
is that assured is guaranteed while uncertain is not certain; unsure.As a verb assured
is (assure).assured
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(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=Youngster Townsend caught the eye on the wing, with his fantastic goal capping a classy performance, while Danny Rose continued his rapid development with an assured display at full-back.}}