UNCERTAINLY • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Uncertainly

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/ənsˈərtənli/ Listen

Uncertainly

adverb

In an unsteady manner. Synonyms: falteringly, unsteadily. "The wounded soldier was swinging unsteadily on his legs" Antonym: steadily.

Showing lack of certainty.

See more definitions of Uncertainly...

See images of 'Uncertainly'

Antonyms of 'Uncertainly'

Etymology of 'Uncertainly'

Share |

"Uncertainly" Quotes from Famous Books

... confines of truth, but without any names—enough to make those concerned uneasy, but not enough to put the power in any hands save those of the Secretary. Harley himself confirmed this by continuing the subject, though somewhat uncertainly, as if he were no longer sure ...

— Before the Dawn - A Story of the Fall of Richmond • Joseph Alexander Altsheler

... The words swam uncertainly before Lancelot's eyes, but he got through them all at last. He felt chilled and numbed. He averted his face as he handed the letter back ...

— Merely Mary Ann • Israel Zangwill

... coo-ee." I do not see at first why he cries and then over the hill come the ewes, a dense gray flock of them, huddling toward me. The yokel behind has a stick in each hand. "Coo-ee, coo-ee," he also cries. And the two men, gathering in, threatening, sidling, advancing slowly, the sheep turning uncertainly this way and that, come at ...

— Adventures In Friendship • David Grayson

... Perhaps he understood what had been said, and saw the hurt in his father's face and longed to heal him of it; perhaps the time had come when he should forever break the goo-goo bonds that had lain upon his speech. He wriggled off Mary's knee, and toddling uncertainly across the grass with a mighty mental conflict in his pudgy little face, held out his dimpled arms with ...

— Sowing Seeds in Danny • Nellie L. McClung

... that called me, and I could not listen to more. My brain was whirling uncertainly, and I doubted if I ought to believe my ears. I went back to my work more dazed and bewildered than ever in my youthful days. I forgot the wonder of the morning. It was quite outshone by the wonder of the afternoon. I longed for my hour of release. I longed for a time for thought,—to learn ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6, No. 38, December, 1860 • Various

More quotes...