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Uncertain vs Lying - What's the difference?

uncertain | lying |

As an adjective uncertain

is not certain; unsure.

As a verb lying is

present participle of lang=en.

As a noun lying is

an act of telling a lie, or falsehood.

uncertain

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • 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!

    • Antonyms

    * certain

    Related terms

    * uncertainly, uncertainty

    Anagrams

    * *

    lying

    English

    (wikipedia lying)

    Verb

    (head)
  • * 1811 , , Sense and Sensibility The Free Library , Chapter 19:
    • Without shutting herself up from her family ... or lying awake the whole night to indulge meditation, Elinor found every day afforded her leisure enough to think of Edward..

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of telling a lie, or falsehood.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • The act of one who lies, or keeps low to the ground.
  • * Saint Augustine, Expositions on the Book of Psalms
    • But whom could the lyings in wait of the human heart escape?