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From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :   [ gazetteer ]

  Uncertain, TX (city, FIPS 74240)
    Location: 32.70856 N, 94.12249 W
    Population (1990): 194 (148 housing units)
    Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Uncertain \Un*cer"tain\, a. [Pref. un- + certain. Cf.
     Incertain.]
     1. Not certain; not having certain knowledge; not assured in
        mind; distrustful. --Chaucer.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Man, without the protection of a superior Being, . .
              . is uncertain of everything that he hopes for.
                                                    --Tillotson.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Irresolute; inconsonant; variable; untrustworthy; as, an
        uncertain person; an uncertain breeze.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              O woman! in our hours of ease,
              Uncertain, coy, and hard to please!   --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. Questionable; equivocal; indefinite; problematical. ``The
        fashion of uncertain evils.'' --Milton.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              From certain dangers to uncertain praise. --Dryden.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     4. Not sure; liable to fall or err; fallible.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Soon bent his bow, uncertain in his aim. --Dryden.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Whistling slings dismissed the uncertain stone.
                                                    --Gay.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Syn: See Precarious.
          [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Uncertain \Un*cer"tain\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + certain; or fr.
     uncertain, a.]
     To make uncertain. [Obs.] --Sir W. Raleigh.
     [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Uncertain \Un*cer"tain\, a. [Pref. un- + certain. Cf.
     Incertain.]
     1. Not certain; not having certain knowledge; not assured in
        mind; distrustful. --Chaucer.
  
              Man, without the protection of a superior Being, . .
              . is uncertain of everything that he hopes for.
                                                    --Tillotson.
  
     2. Irresolute; inconsonant; variable; untrustworthy; as, an
        uncertain person; an uncertain breeze.
  
              O woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and
              hard to please!                       --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
  
     3. Questionable; equivocal; indefinite; problematical. ``The
        fashion of uncertain evils.'' --Milton.
  
              From certain dangers to uncertain praise. --Dryden.
  
     4. Not sure; liable to fall or err; fallible.
  
              Soon bent his bow, uncertain in his aim. --Dryden.
  
              Whistling slings dismissed the uncertain stone.
                                                    --Gay.
  
     Syn: See Precarious.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Uncertain \Un*cer"tain\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + certain; or fr.
     uncertain, a.]
     To make uncertain. [Obs.] --Sir W. Raleigh.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  uncertain
       adj 1: lacking or indicating lack of confidence or assurance;
              "uncertain of his convictions"; "unsure of himself and
              his future"; "moving with uncertain (or unsure)
              steps"; "an uncertain smile"; "touched the ornaments
              with uncertain fingers" [syn: unsure, incertain]
              [ant: certain(p), certain(p)]
       2: not established beyond doubt; still undecided or unknown;
          "an uncertain future"; "a manuscript of uncertain origin";
          "plans are still uncertain"; "changes of great if
          uncertain consquences"; "without further evidence his
          story must remain uncertain" [ant: certain(p)]
       3: not established or confirmed; "his doom is as yet unsealed"
          [syn: unsealed] [ant: sealed]
       4: not firm or secure; "balancing three boxes in an uncertain
          pile"
       5: not certain to occur; not inevitable; "everything is
          uncertain about the army"; "the issue is uncertain" [ant:
          certain]
       6: subject to change; "a changeable climate"; "the weather is
          uncertain"; "unsettled weather with rain and hail and
          sunshine coming one right after the other" [syn: changeable,
           unsettled]
       7: not safe from danger or mishap; "faced an uncertain future";
          "an unsure existence" [syn: unsure]
       8: not consistent or dependable; "an uncertain recollection of
          events"; "a gun with a rather uncertain trigger"
       9: ambiguous (especially in the negative); "she spoke in no
          uncertain terms"

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  uncertain
     Αγγλικά a.
     αβέβαιος

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  uncertain
     a.
     1 Not certain; unsure.
     2 Not known for certain; questionable.
     3 Not yet determined; undecided.
     4 variable and subject to change.
     5 fitful or unsteady.
     6 unpredictable or capricious.
     n.
     (lb en with "the") Something uncertain.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  uncertain
     a.
     1 Not certain; unsure.
     2 Not known for certain; questionable.
     3 Not yet determined; undecided.
     4 variable and subject to change.
     5 fitful or unsteady.
     6 unpredictable or capricious.
     n.
     (lb en with "the") Something uncertain.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  uncertain
     a.
     1 Not certain; unsure.
     2 Not known for certain; questionable.
     3 Not yet determined; undecided.
     4 variable and subject to change.
     5 fitful or unsteady.
     6 unpredictable or capricious.
     n.
     (lb en with "the") Something uncertain.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  uncertain
     a.
     1 Not certain; unsure.
     2 Not known for certain; questionable.
     3 Not yet determined; undecided.
     4 variable and subject to change.
     5 fitful or unsteady.
     6 unpredictable or capricious.
     n.
     (lb en with "the") Something uncertain.

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  uncertain
     Englanti a.
     epävarma

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  uncertain
     Engelska a.
     osäker

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Uncertain /ʌnsˈɜːtən/
  قلق

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  uncertain //ʌnˈsɜːtn̩// //ʌnˈsɝtn̩// 
  1. нестабилен
  fitful or unsteady
  2. неопределен
  not known for certain; questionable
  3. несигурен
  not yet determined; undecided
  4. несигурен, неясен
  unpredictable or capricious
  5. неустановен
  variable and subject to change

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  uncertain /ʌnsˈɜːtən/ 
  neurčitý

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  uncertain /ʌnsˈɜːtən/
  nejistý

From Eurfa Saesneg, English-Welsh Eurfa/Freedict dictionary ver. 0.2.3 :   [ freedict:eng-cym ]

  uncertain /ʌnsˈɜːtən/ 
  ansicr 

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  uncertain /ʌnsˈɜːtən/ 
  entketten 
   see: uncertaining, uncertained
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  uncertain /ʌnsˈɜːtən/
  unsicher, ungewiss, unbestimmt , ohne Gewissheit
        "be uncertain about sb./sth."  - sich über jdn./etw. im Unklaren sein
        "I'm a bit uncertain."  - Ich bin etwas unsicher.

From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:eng-ell ]

  uncertain /ʌnsˈɜːtən/
  
  αμφίβολος, αβέβαιος

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  uncertain //ʌnˈsɜːtn̩// //ʌnˈsɝtn̩// 
  1. epävakaa, epävarma
  fitful or unsteady
  2. epävarma, kyseenalainen
  not known for certain; questionable
  3. epävarma 2.
  not yet determined; undecided
   3.
  variable and subject to change
  4. arvaamaton
  unpredictable or capricious

From English-French FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-fra ]

  uncertain /ʌnsətein/
  aléatoire, incertain, vague

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  uncertain /ʌnsˈɜːtən/ 
  1. अनिश्चित
        "The orphans seem to have an uncertain future."

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  uncertain /ʌnsˈɜːtən/
  kolebljiv, neizvjestan, nesiguran

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  uncertain /ʌnsˈɜːtən/
  1. kétes
  2. habozó
  3. bizonytalan
  4. vitás

From English-Latin FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.2 :   [ freedict:eng-lat ]

  uncertain /ʌnsətein/
  incertus

From English-Lithuanian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.7.2 :   [ freedict:eng-lit ]

  uncertain /ʌnsətein/
  1. netikras, nepastovus
  2. nepatikimas

From English-Dutch FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-nld ]

  uncertain /ʌnsətein/
  onbepaald, onzeker, precair

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  uncertain /ʌnˈsɜ:tən/ 
    niepewny

From English-Portuguese FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-por ]

  uncertain /ʌnsətein/
  duvidoso, incerto

From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-swe ]

  uncertain //ʌnˈsɜːtn̩// //ʌnˈsɝtn̩// 
  osäker, tvivelaktig
  not known for certain; questionable

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  uncertain /ʌnsˈɜːtən/
  1. tahmin olunamaz, şüpheli
  2. güvenilemez, iyice tarif olunmamış
  3. kararsız
  4. değişken, dönek, keyfine tabi. uncertainly  tereddütle
  5. kararsızca. uncertainty  şüphe, tereddüt, kesin olmayış
  6. kesinsizlik.

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ənˈsɝtən/

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) :   [ gazetteer2k-places ]

  Uncertain, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
     Population (2000):    150
     Housing Units (2000): 137
     Land area (2000):     0.509950 sq. miles (1.320765 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.001216 sq. miles (0.003150 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    0.511166 sq. miles (1.323915 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            74240
     Located within:       Texas (TX), FIPS 48
     Location:             32.710040 N, 94.121893 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):    
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Uncertain, TX
      Uncertain
  

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  219 Moby Thesaurus words for "uncertain":
     Pyrrhonic, adrift, afloat, agnostic, alternating, ambiguous,
     ambitendent, ambivalent, amorphous, amphibological, amphibolous,
     at a loss, at loose ends, blear, bleared, bleary, blurred, blurry,
     broken, capricious, careening, catchy, chancy, changeable,
     changeful, choppy, confused, dark, desultory, deviable, deviative,
     dicey, dim, disconnected, discontinuous, distrustful, dizzy,
     double-minded, doubtful, doubting, dubious, eccentric, enigmatic,
     equivocal, equivocatory, erratic, faint, fast and loose, feeble,
     fence-sitting, fence-straddling, fickle, filmy, fitful, flickering,
     flighty, flitting, fluctuating, foggy, freakish, from Missouri,
     fuzzy, giddy, guttering, half-seen, half-visible, halting,
     hazardous, hazy, herky-jerky, hesitant, hesitating, heteroclite,
     iffy, ill-defined, immethodical, impetuous, impulsive, in doubt,
     incalculable, inconsistent, inconspicuous, inconstant, indecisive,
     indefinite, indemonstrable, indistinct, indistinguishable, infirm,
     infirm of purpose, insecure, intermittent, intermitting, ironic,
     irregular, irresolute, irresolved, irresponsible, jerky, leery,
     low-profile, lurching, mazy, mercurial, merely glimpsed,
     mistrustful, mistrusting, misty, moody, mugwumpian, mugwumpish,
     multivocal, mutable, mysterious, nonuniform, obscure, of two minds,
     out of focus, pale, patchy, polysemantic, polysemous, protean,
     questionable, questioning, rambling, restless, risky, rocky, rough,
     roving, scatterbrained, scrappy, scrupulous, semivisible, shadowy,
     shaky, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling, shy, skeptical,
     snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, speculative,
     spineless, sporadic, spotty, staggering, suspecting, suspicious,
     tottery, touch-and-go, treacherous, unaccountable, unclear,
     unconfirmable, uncontrolled, unconvinced, undecided, undefined,
     undependable, undetermined, undisciplined, undivinable, unequal,
     uneven, unfixed, unforeseeable, unhealthy, unmethodical,
     unmetrical, unpersuaded, unplain, unpredictable, unprovable,
     unrecognizable, unregular, unreliable, unresolved, unrestrained,
     unrhythmical, unsafe, unsettled, unsound, unstable,
     unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsure,
     unsystematic, untrusting, untrustworthy, unverifiable, vacillating,
     vagrant, vague, variable, veering, vicissitudinary,
     vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, wary, wavering,
     wavery, wavy, wayward, weak, whimsical, wishy-washy, wobbling,
     wobbly
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  a. 不确定的,不确信的,不可预测的;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     a. 不确定的,无常的,不确信的,不可预测的

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