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Uncertain vs Unsafe - What's the difference?

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Uncertain is a related term of unsafe.


As adjectives the difference between uncertain and unsafe

is that uncertain is not certain; unsure while unsafe is not safe; dangerous.

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

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    unsafe

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • not safe; dangerous

    • Synonyms

    * (not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over) precarious, rickety, shaky, tottering, unsteady, unstable, wobbly