Definition of Certain

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Certain

Assured in mind; having no doubts; free from suspicions concerning.

Determined; resolved; -- used with an infinitive.

Not to be doubted or denied; established as a fact.

Actually existing; sure to happen; inevitable.

Unfailing; infallible.

Fixed or stated; regular; determinate.

Not specifically named; indeterminate; indefinite; one or some; -- sometimes used independenty as a noun, and meaning certain persons.

Certainty.

A certain number or quantity.

Certainly.

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Certain Quotations

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Thomas Jefferson

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
Stephen Covey

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
Wayne Dyer

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
Barack Obama

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
Mark Twain

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
Mark Twain

When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
Mark Twain

Certain Translations

certain in Danish is sikker
certain in Dutch is gewis, zeker, vast, stellig
certain in Finnish is varma
certain in German is sicher
certain in Hungarian is egyes, bizonyos
certain in Italian is sicuramente, sicuro
certain in Latin is liquidus, certus
certain in Norwegian is sikker, viss
certain in Portuguese is certo
certain in Spanish is fijaciono

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