Meanings
comparative more uncertainly · superlative most uncertainly
- In an uncertain manner.
"No — don't you get it?" said Rimmer. ¶ "Get what?" said Kryten, uncertainly.
1990, Grant Naylor, Better Than Life1 more example
I sketch the place of others, pinning them down with objective confidence within an institutional, urban, or rural landscape, yet only failingly, uncertainly, imagine where I really belong[…]
2007, Edward F. Mooney, On Søren Kierkegaard, page 195Antonyms: certainly
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbIn an uncertain manner.
More synonyms by meaning
adverbin an unsteady manner
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle Englishuncerteynliche
- Englishuncertainly
From Middle English uncerteynliche, uncertanlye. By surface analysis, uncertain + -ly or un- + certainly.
More words from Middle English
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan incertament
- incertamentin an uncertain manner
Esperanto malcerte
- malcertein an uncertain manner
Finnish epävarmasti
- epävarmastiin an uncertain manner
French aléatoirement, confusément
- aléatoirementin an uncertain manner
- confusémentin an uncertain manner
Greek αβέβαια
- αβέβαια (avévaia)in an uncertain manner
Hungarian bizonytalanul
- bizonytalanulin an uncertain manner
Italian dubbiosamente, aleatoriamente
- dubbiosamentein an uncertain manner
- aleatoriamentein an uncertain manner
Polish niepewnie, niezdecydowanie
- niepewniein an uncertain manner
- niezdecydowaniein an uncertain manner
Portuguese incertamente
- incertamentein an uncertain manner
Russian неопределённо
- неопределённо (neopredeljónno)in an uncertain manner
Spanish inciertamente
- inciertamentein an uncertain manner
Swedish osäkert, tveksamt
- osäkertin an uncertain manner
- tveksamtin an uncertain manner
- trevandein an uncertain manner
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Cite this entry
uncertainly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncertainly
“uncertainly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncertainly. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “uncertainly,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncertainly.
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