Uncertain vs Somewhere - What's the difference?
uncertain | somewhere |
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!
In an uncertain or unspecified location.
To an uncertain or unspecified location.
Unspecified or unknown (unlocated) place or location.
* 1986 , Joel S. Goldsmith, A Parenthesis in Eternity: Living the Mystical Life , page 100:
* 2008 , Bill Watkins, The Once and Future Celt , page 283:
* 2012 , Thomas M. Kitts, Finding Fogerty: Interdisciplinary Readings of John Fogerty , page 6:
As an adjective uncertain
is not certain; unsure.As an adverb somewhere is
in an uncertain or unspecified location.As a noun somewhere is
unspecified or unknown (unlocated) place or location.uncertain
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Antonyms
* certainAnagrams
* *somewhere
English
Adverb
(-)- I must have left my glasses somewhere .
- I've hidden some candies somewhere .
- He plans to go somewhere warm for his vacation.
- I have to go somewhere at lunch. Can I meet you at 2?
Synonyms
* someplace (US)Derived terms
* somewhere over the rainbowNoun
(en noun)- We have come from somewhere and we are going somewhere, but because life is an unending circle, we are again going to come from a somewhere', and we are again going to go to a ' somewhere , and this will go on, and on, and on.
- A courting owl hoots in the somewheres of the night and another answers its call further off.
- and it transports the person to a somewhere', a ' somewhere that the music dictates.
