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un·cer·tain  audio  (n-sūrtn) KEY  

ADJECTIVE:
  1. Not known or established; questionable: domestic changes of great if uncertain consequences.
  2. Not determined; undecided: uncertain plans.
  3. Not having sure knowledge: an uncertain recollection of the sequence of events.
    1. Subject to change; variable: uncertain weather.
    2. Unsteady; fitful: uncertain light.


OTHER FORMS:
un·certain·ly (Adverb), un·certain·ness (Noun)


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