certainty

Roget category 474

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.3. Materials for reasoning
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#474. Certainty

noun

certainty — necessity etc. 601 — certitude, surety, assurance — dead certainty, moral certainty — infallibleness etc. adj. — infallibility, reliability — indubitableness, inevitableness, unquestionableness^†.
gospel, scripture, church, pope, court of final appeal — res judicata [Lat.], ultimatum positiveness — dogmatism, dogmatist, dogmatizer — doctrinaire, bigot, opinionist^†, Sir Oracle — ipse dixit [Lat.].
fact — positive fact, matter of fact — fait accompli [Fr.].

verb

be certain etc. adj. — stand to reason.
render certain etc. adj. — insure, ensure, assure — clinch, make sure — determine, decide, set at rest, make assurance double sure" [Macbeth]; know etc. (believe) 484.
dogmatize, lay down the law.

adjective

certain, sure, assured etc. v. — solid, well-founded.
unqualified, absolute, positive, determinate, definite, clear, unequivocal, categorical, unmistakable, decisive, decided, ascertained.
inevitable, unavoidable, avoidless^† — ineluctable.
unerring, infallible — unchangeable etc. 150 — to be depended on, trustworthy, reliable, bound.
unimpeachable, undeniable, unquestionable — indisputable, incontestable, incontrovertible, indubitable — irrefutable etc. (proven) 478 — conclusive, without power of appeal.
indubious^† — without doubt, beyond a doubt, without a shade or shadow of doubt, without question, beyond question — past dispute — clear as day — beyond all question, beyond all dispute — undoubted, uncontested, unquestioned, undisputed — questionless^†, doubtless.
authoritative, authentic, official.
sure as fate, sure as death and taxes, sure as a gun.
evident, self-evident, axiomatic — clear, clear as day, clear as the sun at noonday.

adverb

certainly etc. adj. — for certain, certes [Lat.], sure, no doubt, doubtless, and no mistake, flagrante delicto [Lat.], sure enough, to be sure, of course, as a matter of course, a coup sur, to a certainty — in truth etc. (truly) 494 — at any rate, at all events — without fail — coute que coute [Fr.], coute qu'il coute [Fr.] — whatever may happen, if the worst come to the worst — come what may, happen what may, come what will — sink or swim — rain or shine.

phrase

cela va sans dire [Fr.] — there is no question, no question, not a shadow of doubt, there is not a shadow of doubt — the die is cast etc. (necessity) 601 — facts are stubborn things" [Smollett].

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