uncertaintynoun [ C or U ]
uk/ʌnˈsɜː.tən.ti/us/ʌnˈsɝː.tən.ti/C1 a situation in which something is not known, or something that is not known or certain:
Nothing is ever decided, and all the uncertainty is very bad for staff morale.
Life is full of uncertainties.
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- Is there any uncertainty at all about the way she died?
- The commission's report has dispelled much of the uncertainty that has enshrouded the industry.
- There's a degree of uncertainty over the company's future.
- There's some uncertainty surrounding the funding for the project.
- There's an element of uncertainty in our plans.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Uncertainty
- be neither fish nor fowl idiom
- circumstantial
- conflicted
- debatable
- definite maybe
- dispute
- joker
- joker in the pack idiom
- kind
- kind of idiom
- kinda
- knife edge
- razor
- shade
- tenuous
- there's no knowing idiom
- touch-and-go
- uncertain
- unconfirmed
- vague
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