Thesaurus
sure
Synonyms and Antonyms of sure
- are you absolutely sure that she said she was coming today?
- the joke's a sure dud if you don't pause in the right places
in the bag, in the cards (also on the cards)
- a sure cure for the winter blues—a week in the Bahamas
- a sister is a sure friend for life
disloyal, faithless, false, fickle, inconstant, perfidious, recreant, traitorous, treacherous, unfaithful, untrue
deceitful, dishonest, lying, mendacious, untruthful
debatable, disputable, doubtable, doubtful, dubious, fishy, problematic (also problematical), questionable, shady, shaky, suspect, uncertain, unsound
dodgy [chiefly British], uncertain, undependable, unreliable, unsafe, untrustworthy
- no sure evidence that life exists on other planets
controversial, debated, disputed
doubtful, dubious, iffy, inconclusive, indecisive, uncertain
academic (also academical), hypothetical, speculative, theoretical (also theoretic)
Synonym Discussion of sure
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- felt sure that I had forgotten something
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- police are certain about the cause of the fire
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- I'm positive that's the person I saw
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- you're always so cocksure about everything
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Synonyms and Antonyms of sure
- we sure could use your help here
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See words that rhyme with sure Dictionary: Definition of sure Spanish Central: Translation of sure Nglish: Translation of sure for Spanish speakers Britannica English: Translation of sure for Arabic speakers
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