Hazardous vs Uncertain - What's the difference?
hazardous | uncertain | Synonyms |
Risky, dangerous, with the nature of a hazard.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-14, volume=411, issue=8891, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (rfc-sense) Exposing to loss or evil.
Of or involving chance.
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.
:
Not yet determined; undecided.
Variable and subject to change.
Fitful or unsteady.
*
*: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!
Hazardous is a synonym of uncertain.
As adjectives the difference between hazardous and uncertain
is that hazardous is risky, dangerous, with the nature of a hazard while uncertain is not certain; unsure.hazardous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)It's a gas, passage=But out of sight is out of mind. And that