unsure

Adjective

Meaning

lacking self-confidence

lacking or indicating lack of confidence or assurance

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

dickey chancy uncertain problematic ambiguous vague unreliable suspicious skeptical indefinite shy risky questionable agnostic doubtful

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Antonyms

undaunted set certain indubitable positive determined

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Phrases with the word

unsure logic be unsure about unsure of oneself unsure thinking be unsure of

Examples

A sure friend is known in unsure times. Ennius

I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure. Bette Davis

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. James Joyce

The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of. Fred Hoyle

Have books ‘happened' to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,' I'm unsure how to talk to you. Haruki Murakami

We tread on unsure ground, theologically. The doctrines are still in the malleable state; what eventually evolves from them will owe its existence not to pre-eminent merit, but to the shrewdness of the compromises made by the factions. George Alec Effinger

Close letter words and terms

unsuppurative unsupreme unsurcharged unsure logic unsure of oneself unsure thinking