UNCERTAIN


Meaning of UNCERTAIN in English

adj.

1 not confident

VERBS

▪ be , feel , look , seem , sound

▪ become

▪ leave sb

His research into the incident has left him ~ as to exactly where responsibility lay.

▪ make sb

ADVERB

▪ deeply ( esp. BrE ), very

I feel deeply ~ about the future.

▪ rather , somewhat

▪ a little , slightly , etc.

PREPOSITION

▪ about , as to

He seemed strangely ~ as to how to continue.

▪ of

We were rather ~ of the direction it came from.

2 not known exactly

VERBS

▪ be , look

▪ become

▪ remain , seem

▪ make sth

immigration policies that made employment status ~

ADVERB

▪ extremely , fairly , very , etc.

▪ highly

Cost estimates are highly ~ in this business.

▪ increasingly

▪ still

Whether diet is an important factor in this illness is still ~.

▪ inherently

The world is inherently ~.

Uncertain is used with these nouns: ↑ environment , ↑ fate , ↑ future , ↑ nature , ↑ outlook , ↑ start , ↑ weather

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