Unsure vs Ensure - What's the difference?
unsure | ensure |
uncertain
unstable or precarious
To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure.
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To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
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As an adjective unsure
is uncertain.As a verb ensure is
to make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure.unsure
English
Adjective
(er)- I'm still unsure whether to attend the wedding.
Synonyms
* agnostic (unsure of facts, having no decided opinion on a matter)ensure
English
Verb
(ensur)Keeping the mighty honest, passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}