uncertainty
Roget category 475
4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties› 4.3. Materials for reasoning
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Uncertainty
noun
uncertainty,
incertitude,
doubt —
doubtfulness
etc.
adj. —
dubiety,
dubitation†,
dubitancy†,
dubitousness†.
hesitation,
suspense —
perplexity,
embarrassment,
dilemma,
bewilderment —
timidity
etc.
(fear)
860 —
vacillation
etc.
605 —
diaporesis†,
indetermination.
vagueness
etc.
adj. —
haze,
fog —
obscurity
etc.
(darkness)
421 —
ambiguity
etc.
(double meaning)
520 —
contingency,
dependence,
dependency,
double contingency,
possibility upon a possibility —
open question
etc.
(question)
461 —
onus probandi [Lat.] —
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
etc.
adj. —
fallibility.
verb
be uncertain
etc.
adj. —
wonder whether.
lose the clue,
lose the clew,
scent —
miss one's way.
not know what to make of
etc.
(unintelligibility)
519,
not know which way to turn,
not know whether one stands on one s head or one's 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
etc.
adj. —
put out,
pose,
puzzle,
perplex,
embarrass —
confuse,
confound —
bewilder,
bother,
molder,
addle the wits,
throw off the scent,
ambiguas in vulgus spargere voces [Lat.] —
keep in suspense.
doubt
etc.
(disbelieve)
485 —
hang in the balance,
tremble in the balance —
depend.
adjective
uncertain —
casual —
random
etc.
(aimless)
621 —
changeable
etc.
149.
doubtful,
dubious —
indecisive —
unsettled,
undecided,
undetermined —
in suspense,
open to discussion —
controvertible —
in question
etc.
(inquiry)
461.
vague —
indeterminate,
indefinite —
ambiguous,
equivocal —
undefined,
undefinable —
confused
etc.
(indistinct)
447 —
mystic,
oracular —
dazed.
perplexing
etc.
v. —
enigmatic,
paradoxical,
apocryphal,
problematical,
hypothetical —
experimental
etc.
463.
unpredictable,
unforeseeable
(unknowable)
519.
fallible,
questionable,
precarious,
slippery,
ticklish,
debatable,
disputable —
unreliable,
untrustworthy.
contingent,
contingent on,
dependent on —
subject to —
dependent on circumstances —
occasional —
provisional.
unauthentic,
unauthenticated,
unauthoritative —
unascertained,
unconfirmed —
undemonstrated —
untold,
uncounted.
in a state of uncertainty,
in a cloud,
in a maze —
bushed,
off the track —
ignorant,
etc.
491 —
afraid to say —
out of one's reckoning,
astray,
adrift —
at sea,
at fault,
at a loss,
at one's wit's end,
at a nonplus —
puzzled
etc.
v. —
lost,
abroad,
d_esorient_e —
distracted,
distraught.
adverb
pendente lite [Lat.] —
sub spe rati [Lat.].
phrase
Heaven knows —
who can tell,?
who shall decide when doctors disagree —?
ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces [Lat.].
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