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Irrefragable vs Certain - What's the difference?

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Irrefragable is a related term of certain.


As adjectives the difference between irrefragable and certain

is that irrefragable is irrefutable while certain is certain.

irrefragable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Which cannot be refuted; indisputable, clearly right, incontrovertible.
  • * 1885 , , Nuttie's Father , ch. 20:
    • Bulfinch, a solicitor at Redcastle, came to him with irrefragable proofs of gross peculation on the part of the bailiff.
  • * 1913 , , John Barleycorn , ch. 19:
    • [W]e didn't. That is the irrefragable fact. We didn't.
  • * 2001 Jan. 14, , " Bookend: White House Book Club," New York Times (retrieved 18 Nov 2012):
    • Lionel Trilling has cautioned us that an idea derived from reading is not a unitary, irrefragable thing but something modified in its transmission.

    Synonyms

    * (which cannot be refuted) incontestable, incontrovertible, indisputable, indubitable, irrefutable, unanswerable, undeniable, unquestionable

    Related terms

    * irrefragability * irrefragably * refragable

    certain

    English

    Adjective

    (wikipedia certain) (en adjective)
  • Sure, positive, not doubting.
    • I was certain of my decision.
  • (obsolete) Determined; resolved.
  • * Milton
    • However, I with thee have fixed my lot, / Certain to undergo like doom.
  • Not to be doubted or denied; established as a fact.
  • * Bible, Dan. ii. 45
    • The dream is certain , and the interpretation thereof sure.
  • Actually existing; sure to happen; inevitable.
    • Bankruptcy is the certain outcome of your constant gambling and lending.
  • * Dryden
    • Virtue that directs our ways / Through certain dangers to uncertain praise.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all.
  • Unfailing; infallible.
  • * Mead
    • I have often wished that I knew as certain a remedy for any other distemper.
  • Fixed or stated; regular; determinate.
  • * Bible, Ex. xvi. 4
    • The people go out and gather a certain rate every day.
  • Not specifically named; indeterminate; indefinite; one or some; sometimes used independently as a noun, and meaning certain persons.
  • * Bible, Luke v. 12
    • It came to pass when he was in a certain city.
  • * Macaulay
    • About everything he wrote there was a certain natural grace and decorum.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * (not doubting) uncertain * (sure to happen) impossible, incidental

    Derived terms

    * certainly

    Related terms

    * certainty

    Determiner

    (en 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.
  • * Bible, Acts xxiii. 12
    • Certain of the Jews banded together.
  • * , title=The Mirror and the Lamp
    • , chapter=3 citation , passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”}}

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