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uncertainty - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | uncertainty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | doubt, changeableness |
| Synonyms: | ambiguity, ambivalence, anxiety, bewilderment, concern, confusion, conjecture, contingency, dilemma, disquiet, distrust, dubiety, hesitancy, hesitation, incertitude, indecision, misgiving, mistrust, oscillation, puzzle, qualm, quandary, query, reserve, scruple, skepticism, suspicion, trouble, uneasiness, vagueness, wonder, worry, doubtfulness, guesswork, inconclusiveness, irresolution, lack of confidence, mystification, perplexity, puzzlement, questionableness, unpredictability |
| Antonyms: | certainty, security, definiteness, sureness |
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-nouns
uncertainty, incertitude, doubt; doubtfulness; dubiety, dubitation, dubitancy, dubitousness., hesitation, suspense; perplexity, embarrassment, dilemma, bewilderment; timidity (fear) [more]; vacillation [more]; diaporesis, indetermination., vagueness; haze, fog; obscurity (darkness) [more]; ambiguity (double meaning) [more]; contingency, double contingency, possibility upon a possibility; open question (question) [more]; onus probandi; blind bargain, pig in a poke, leap in the dark, something or other; needle in a haystack, needle in a bottle of hay; roving commission., precariousness; fallibility.
-verbs
be uncertain; wonder whether., lose the clue, lose the clew, scent; miss one's way., not know what to make of (unintelligibility) [more], not know which way to turn, not know whether one stands on one's head or one's heels; float in a sea of doubt, hesitate, flounder; lose oneself, lose one's head; muddle one's brains., render uncertain; put out, pose, puzzle, perplex, embarrass; confuse, confound; bewilder, bother, molder, addle the wits, throw off the scent, ambiguas in vulgus spargere voces; keep in suspense., doubt (disbelieve) [more]; hang in the balance, tremble in the balance; depend.
-adjectives
uncertain; casual; random (aimless) [more]; changeable [more]., doubtful, dubious; indecisive; unsettled, undecided, undetermined; in suspense, open to discussion; controvertible; in question (inquiry) [more]., vague; indeterminate, indefinite; ambiguous, equivocal; undefined, undefinable; confused (indistinct) [more]; mystic, oracular; dazed., perplexing; enigmatic, paradoxical, apocryphal, problematical, hypothetical; experimental [more]., fallible, questionable, precarious, slippery, ticklish, debatable, disputable; unreliable, untrustworthy.
-adverbs
pendente lite; sub spe rati.
-phrases
Heaven knows; who can tell? who shall decide when doctors disagree? ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces.
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| Antonyms: | certainty |
| Main Entry: | ambiguity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uncertainty of meaning |
| Synonyms: | anagram, doubt, dubiety, enigma, equivocation, incertitude, obscurity, puzzle, uncertainty, vagueness, double meaning, double-entendre, doubtfulness, dubiousness, equivocacy, equivocality, inconclusiveness, indefiniteness, indeterminateness, polysemousness, polysemy, tergiversation, unclearness |
| Antonyms: | certainty, clarity, clearness, lucidity, definiteness, explicitness |
| Main Entry: | ambivalence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | equivocation |
| Synonyms: | doubt, fluctuation, haze, hesitancy, hesitation, indecision, muddle, quandary, uncertainty, confusion dilemma, gingerliness, iffiness, inconclusiveness, irresoluteness, tentativeness, unsureness |
| Antonyms: | certainty, decisiveness |
| Main Entry: | anxiety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | worry, tension |
| Synonyms: | angst, apprehension, care, concern, disquiet, disquietude, distress, doubt, downer*, drag*, dread, flap*, foreboding, fuss, goose bumps*, jitters, misery, misgiving, mistrust, nervousness, panic, pins and needles, restlessness, solicitude, suffering, suspense, sweat*, trouble, uncertainty, uneasiness, watchfulness, all-overs, ants in pants, botheration, butterflies, cold sweat, creeps, fidgets, fretfulness, heebie-jeebies, jumps, nail-biting, needles, shakes, shivers, unease, willies, worriment |
| Antonyms: | assurance, calmness, composure, contentment, ease, happiness, nonchalance, peace, tranquility |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | game of chance; money gambled |
| Synonyms: | action, ante, chance, hazard, long shot, lot, lottery, odds, parlay, play, pledge, plunge, pot, raffle, risk, shot, shot in the dark*, speculation, stake, uncertainty, venture, wager, betting, down on, odds on, random shot, sweepstakes |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | contingency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chance happening; possibility |
| Synonyms: | accident, break, chance, crisis, crossroads, emergency, event, eventuality, exigency, fortuity, happening, if it's cool, incident, juncture, likelihood, occasion, odds, opportunity, pass, pinch, predicament, probability, strait, turning point, uncertainty, zero hour* |
| Antonyms: | certainty, definiteness, reality, surety, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | danger |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hazard, troublesome situation |
| Synonyms: | crisis, dynamite, emergency, exigency, exposure, insecurity, instability, jeopardy, menace, peril, pitfall, possibility, precipice, probability, risk, storm, threat, uncertainty, venture, clouds, double trouble, endangerment, hot potato, precariousness, risky business, slipperiness, thin ice, vulnerability |
| Antonyms: | care, guard, preservation, safety, security, carefulness |
| Main Entry: | doubt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack of faith, conviction; questioning |
| Synonyms: | ambiguity, apprehension, confusion, difficulty, diffidence, dilemma, disbelief, discredit, disquiet, distrust, dubiety, faithlessness, fear, hesitancy, hesitation, incertitude, incredulity, indecision, misgiving, mistrust, problem, qualm, quandary, rejection, reluctance, scruple, skepticism, suspense, suspicion, uncertainty, vacillation, wavering, agnosticism, demurral, dubiousness, faltering, irresolution, lack of confidence, perplexity |
| Antonyms: | belief, certainty, confidence, faith, reliance, trust, dependence |
| Main Entry: | gamble |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chance, speculation |
| Synonyms: | action, bet, fling, leap*, long shot*, lottery, raffle, risk, shot in the dark*, stab*, uncertainty, venture, wager, outside chance, spec, throw of the dice, toss up |
| Notes: | a gamble (noun) is a risky act, venture, bet, or wager - to gamble (verb) is to take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome; a gambol (noun) a skipping or leaping about in frolic - to gambol (verb) is to dance and skip about in play or to frolic |
| Antonyms: | design, guard, insurance, plan, protection, safeguard |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | instability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imbalance, inconstancy |
| Synonyms: | alternation, anxiety, disquiet, flightiness, fluctuation, frailty, hesitation, immaturity, inconsistency, insecurity, irregularity, oscillation, restlessness, uncertainty, vacillation, volatility, wavering, weakness, capriciousness, changeability, changeableness, disequilibrium, fickleness, fitfulness, fluidity, impermanence, inquietude, irresolution, mutability, pliancy, precariousness, shakiness, transience, unfixedness, unpredictability, unreliability, unsteadiness, variability, vulnerability |
| Antonyms: | balance, constancy, soundness, stability, steadfastness |
| Main Entry: | maze |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | labyrinth; confusion |
| Synonyms: | bewilderment, convolution, entanglement, hodgepodge, imbroglio, intricacy, jungle, knot, meander, meandering, mesh, miscellany, morass, muddle, network, puzzle, quandary, snarl, tangle, twist, uncertainty, web, winding, perplexity, skein, torsion |
| Main Entry: | mistrust |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | doubtfulness |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, concern, distrust, doubt, dubiety, fear, foreboding, incertitude, misgiving, presentiment, scruple, skepticism, suspicion, uncertainty, wariness, wonder, chariness, dubiosity |
| Antonyms: | belief, certainty, confidence, faith, trust |
| Main Entry: | peril |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | danger, risk |
| Synonyms: | exposure, hazard, insecurity, jeopardy, liability, menace, pitfall, uncertainty, cause for alarm, double trouble, endangerment, openness, risky business, vulnerability |
| Antonyms: | safety, security, safeness |
| Main Entry: | qualm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nagging doubt |
| Synonyms: | agitation, anxiety, apprehension, compunction, conscience, demur, disquiet, foreboding, hesitation, indecision, insecurity, misgiving, mistrust, nervousness, objection, pang, perturbation, presentiment, regret, reluctance, remonstrance, remorse, scruple, suspicion, twinge, uncertainty, uneasiness, misdoubt, unease |
| Antonyms: | approval, comfort, contentedness |
| Main Entry: | quandary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | delicate situation |
| Synonyms: | Catch-22*, bewilderment, bind, clutch, corner*, difficulty, dilemma, doubt, embarrassment, hang-up*, impasse, mire, pickle*, plight, predicament, puzzle, spot*, strait, uncertainty, double trouble, perplexity, up a tree |
| Antonyms: | advantage, certainty, solution |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | query |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | demand for answers |
| Synonyms: | concern, doubt, dubiety, inquiry, interrogation, mistrust, objection, problem, question, questioning, reservation, skepticism, suspicion, uncertainty, interrogatory |
| Antonyms: | answer, reply |
| Main Entry: | risk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chance taken |
| Synonyms: | accident, contingency, danger, exposure, flyer*, fortune, gamble, hazard, jeopardy, liability, luck, opportunity, peril, plunge, possibility, prospect, shot in the dark*, speculation, stab*, uncertainty, venture, wager, exposedness, fortuity, header, liableness, openness |
| Antonyms: | certainty, safety, surety, sureness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | skepticism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | doubt |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, disbelief, distrust, dubiety, faithlessness, hesitation, indecision, questioning, reluctance, suspicion, uncertainty, agnosticism, dubiousness, lack of confidence, leeriness |
| Main Entry: | suspense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anticipation |
| Synonyms: | anxiety, apprehension, confusion, dilemma, doubt, eagerness, expectancy, expectation, hesitancy, hesitation, impatience, indecision, insecurity, tension, uncertainty, wavering, chiller, cliff-hanger, cloak and dagger, grabber, indecisiveness, irresolution, page-turner, perplexity, potboiler, thriller |
| Antonyms: | knowledge |
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