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For certain   /fɔr sˈərtən/   Listen
adjective
Certain  adj.  
1.
Assured in mind; having no doubts; free from suspicions concerning. "To make her certain of the sad event." "I myself am certain of you."
2.
Determined; resolved; used with an infinitive. "However, I with thee have fixed my lot, Certain to undergo like doom."
3.
Not to be doubted or denied; established as a fact. "The dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure."
4.
Actually existing; sure to happen; inevitable. "Virtue that directs our ways Through certain dangers to uncertain praise." "Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all."
5.
Unfailing; infallible. "I have often wished that I knew as certain a remedy for any other distemper."
6.
Fixed or stated; regular; determinate. "The people go out and gather a certain rate every day."
7.
Not specifically named; indeterminate; indefinite; one or some; sometimes used independenty as a noun, and meaning certain persons. "It came to pass when he was in a certain city." "About everything he wrote there was a certain natural grace und decorum."
For certain, assuredly.
Of a certain, certainly.
Synonyms: Bound; sure; true; undeniable; unquestionable; undoubted; plain; indubitable; indisputable; incontrovertible; unhesitating; undoubting; fixed; stated.





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"For certain" Quotes from Famous Books



... wealth, A little house and freedom, With some friends for certain ends, But little cause to ...
— The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing - A Manual of Ready Reference • Joseph Triemens
... a fine physique, and being free from serious ailments of any kind, should carry on the traditions of his long-lived ancestors as to a vigorous old age. His hair has whitened, but is still thick and abundant, and though he uses glasses for certain work, his gray-blue eyes are as keen and bright and deeply lustrous as ever, with the direct, searching look in them that they have ever worn. He stands five feet nine and one-half inches high, weighs one hundred and seventy-five pounds, and has not varied ...
— Edison, His Life and Inventions • Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
... that now, Mabel. Come and watch me struggle out of this pack. Yes, look here, as soon as ever I know for certain when the course ends we'll write for rooms at the Savoy. I hear you have to do it weeks ahead. We'll spend pots of money and have no end of ...
— If Winter Comes • A.S.M. Hutchinson
... example, has been made. Such schemes will, no doubt, become frequent, and will afford much scope for discussion in both countries during the next decade or so.[47] The American constitution and the British crown and constitution have to be modified or shelved at some stage in this synthesis, and for certain types of intelligence there could be no more attractive problem. Certain curious changes in the colonial point of view will occur as these discussions open out. The United States of America are rapidly taking, or have ...
— Anticipations - Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon - Human life and Thought • Herbert George Wells
... "Yes—for certain. I learned to do that before you were born; but when things are said up against those I value and respect, it's different. I've told three men they were liars, to-day, and I may have to ...
— The Spinners • Eden Phillpotts


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