What are the opposite words for certainty?
The word "certainty" refers to something that is definite, confident, and unquestionable. The antonyms for certainty include ambiguity, uncertainty, doubt, insecurity, and hesitation. Ambiguity refers to something that is open to more than one interpretation or cannot be understood clearly. Uncertainty means the absence of a confident or definite opinion or knowledge about something. Doubt refers to a feeling of uncertainty about the truth, reality or reliability of something. Insecurity is the feeling of not being confident or stable in oneself or a situation. Hesitation means the act of being unsure or uncertain about what to do or say. All these antonyms for certainty imply a lack of confidence and unclarity.
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- question
- wrong
- error
- thought
- misuse
- chance
- venture
- threat
- disbelief
- appearance
- amazement
- wonder
- equivocation
- irresolution
- uncertainty
- obscurity
- ghost
- probability
- insanity
- imagination
- deception
- failure
- crisis
- possibility
- supposition
- misinterpretation
- danger
- doubt
- anticipation
- apparition
- assumption
- bait
- blunder
- cloudiness
- cognition
- conjecture
- contingency
- defect
- diffidence
- enterprise
- event
- fancy
- hap
- imaginativeness
- indecisiveness
- insaneness
- instability
- misapprehension
- mistrust
- opinion
- postulation
- preconception
- presumption
- problem
- protestation
- romance
- sophistry
- unease
- unstableness
- vacillation
- accident
- acrimony
- adventure
- ambivalence
- anxiety
- apprehension
- attempt
- bet
- blooper
- casualty
- chimera
- daydream
- delusion
- disfavor
- distrust
- doubtfulness
- dream
- exposure
- fallacy
- falsity
- fantasy
- fluctuation
- fluke
- gamble
- guess
- hazard
- hesitation
- illusion
- indefiniteness
- jeopardy
- juncture
- liability
- limbo
- lure
- maze
- miscarriage
- misgiving
- mishap
- misprint
- miss
- mistake
- misunderstanding
- objection
- outlook
- peril
- qualm
- query
- ricketiness
- risk
- solecism
- stress
- surmise
- suspicion
- theory
- turning point
- uneasiness
- whim
- upset
- risky or unexpected undertaking
- uncertainty of meaning
- worry, tension
- outward show; pretense
- anxiety, fear
- try, effort
- theorem
- quandary
- game of chance; money gambled
- insecureness
- circumstance, conditions
- overgeneral reasoning
- paradox
- positive assurance
- possibility, probability
- suspense
- dream, fantasy
- vagueness
- speculation, assumption
- chance happening; possibility
- critical situation
- hazard, troublesome situation
- fantasy thought of when awake
- casuistry
- blemish, imperfection
- misconception, misbelief
- hesitancy; lack of confidence
- thesis
- unbelief
- doubt, skepticism
- dislike; disgrace
- lack of faith in something
- ambiguity
- lack of faith, conviction; questioning
- illusion, vision
- avoidance of an issue
- mistake; wrong
- occurrence, happening
- uncovering; putting in view or danger
- myth
- illusion, misconception
- dishonesty, deception
- impulse, urge
- imagination, dream
- chance occurrence
- chance, speculation
- belief, speculation
- waiting; uncertainty
- false appearance; false belief
- incorrectness
- miscount
- mental illness; foolishness
- burden, debt
- state of uncertainty
- labyrinth; confusion
- danger; pest
- imaginary vision
- misconception
- cynicism
- error, misunderstanding
- instance of having the wrong idea
- fictitious story, often ancient
- bad dream or experience
- probable future
- contradiction, puzzle
- danger, risk
- ghost; figment of the imagination
- feasibility, likelihood; chance
- precariousness
- presupposition
- idea formed before event occurs or facts are received
- belief, hypothesis
- likelihood of something happening
- difficulty; bad situation
- nagging doubt
- demand for answers
- controversy, doubt
- chance taken
- physical or mental pressure
- nightmare
- guess, belief
- guess, conclusion
- explanation based on hypothesis and experiments
- hypothesis, belief
- idea, concept
- warning; danger
- unclearness
- unsteadiness
- doubt, changeableness
- gamble, attempt
- money or something gambled
- sudden idea
- anxiety, trouble
- offense, sin
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
-
question
- puzzle over,
- work over,
- cross examine,
- quested,
- questing,
- questions,
- hold out for,
- hit up,
- give the third degree,
- ask about,
- asked about,
- asking about,
- asks about,
- call in to question,
- cast doubt up on,
- cast doubt upon,
- casting doubt up on,
- casting doubt upon,
- casts doubt up on,
- casts doubt upon,
- crossexamine,
- dis believe,
- dis believed,
- dis believes,
- dis believing,
- dis trusted,
- dis trusting,
- dis-believe,
- dis-believed,
- dis-believes,
- dis-believing,
- dis-trusted,
- dis-trusting,
- gave the third degree,
- give third degree,
- gives the third degree,
- gives third degree,
- giving the third degree,
- giving third degree,
- held out for,
- hits up,
- hitting up,
- holding out for,
- holds out for,
- in quire,
- in quired,
- in quires,
- in quiring,
- in-quire,
- in-quired,
- in-quires,
- in-quiring,
- inter view,
- inter viewed,
- inter viewing,
- inter views,
- inter-view,
- inter-viewing,
- inter-views,
- made inquiry,
- make inquiry,
- makes inquiry,
- mis trusted,
- mis trusting,
- mis-trusted,
- mis-trusting,
- pick brains,
- pick one brains,
- pick one's brains,
- pick ones brains,
- picked one's brains,
- picking brains,
- picking one brains,
- picking one's brains,
- picking ones brains,
- picks brains,
- picks one brains,
- picks one's brains,
- picks ones brains,
- pro bed,
- pro-bed,
- put the question,
- put through the wringer,
- put through wringer,
- put to question,
- put to the question,
- puts question,
- puts the question,
- puts through the wringer,
- puts to question,
- puts to the question,
- putting question,
- putting the question,
- putting through the wringer,
- putting to question,
- putting to the question,
- puzzled over,
- puzzles over,
- puzzling over,
- raise question,
- raised question,
- raises question,
- raising question,
- show curiosity,
- showed curiosity,
- showing curiosity,
- shows curiosity,
- sounded out,
- sounding out,
- sounds out,
- suspicioned,
- suspicioning,
- sweat it out of,
- sweat out of,
- sweated it out of,
- sweated out of,
- sweating it out of,
- sweating out of,
- sweats it out of,
- wonder about,
- wondered about,
- wondering about,
- wonders about,
- worked over,
- works over,
- wrought over,
- de bate,
- de bates,
- de-bate,
- de-bates.
-
wrong
- sinfulness,
- tort,
- Torts,
- in equity,
- bad deed,
- bad deeds,
- dis courtesies,
- dis courtesy,
- dis-courtesies,
- dis-courtesy,
- in decencies,
- in decency,
- in equities,
- in humanities,
- in humanity,
- in justices,
- in-decencies,
- in-decency,
- in-equity,
- in-justice,
- mis demeanor,
- mis doing,
- mis doings,
- mis-demeanor,
- mis-demeanors,
- mis-doings,
- sinfulnesses,
- un fairnesses,
- un-fairness,
- un-fairnesses.
-
error
- flaw,
- howler,
- misconception,
- mismanagement,
- screamer,
- Misbelief,
- errors,
- XS,
- screamers,
- howlers,
- bad job,
- bad jobs,
- in accuracies,
- in accuracy,
- in-accuracies,
- in-accuracy,
- mis belief,
- mis beliefs,
- mis calculation,
- mis cue,
- mis cues,
- mis deed,
- mis deeds,
- mis judgment,
- mis judgments,
- mis management,
- mis managements,
- mis steps,
- mis-belief,
- mis-beliefs,
- mis-calculation,
- mis-calculations,
- mis-cue,
- mis-cues,
- mis-deed,
- mis-deeds,
- mis-judgment,
- mis-management,
- mis-managements,
- mis-steps,
- misbeliefs,
- mismanagements,
- screw ups,
- screw-ups,
- un truth,
- un truths,
- un-truth,
- un-truths.
- thought
- misuse
-
chance
- even chance,
- hap,
- liabilities,
- likelihood,
- luck out,
- peradventure,
- Opportunities,
- tossup,
- in the cards,
- co incidence,
- co incidences,
- co-incidence,
- co-incidences,
- craps game,
- craps games,
- even chances,
- fall cards,
- fall of card,
- fall of cards,
- fall of the card,
- fall of the cards,
- fall the card,
- haphazards,
- heads or tail,
- heads or tails,
- heads tail,
- heads tails,
- in card,
- in the card,
- look in,
- luck outs,
- out come,
- out comes,
- out-come,
- out-comes,
- peradventures,
- pro spect,
- pro spects,
- pro-spects,
- stroke luck,
- throw dice,
- throw of dice,
- throw of the dice,
- throw the dice,
- turn cards,
- turn of card,
- turn of cards,
- turn of the card,
- turn of the cards,
- turn the cards,
- way cookie crumble,
- way cookie crumbles,
- way the cookie crumble,
- way the cookie crumbles,
- wheel fortune.
- venture
- threat
- disbelief
- appearance
- amazement
- wonder
-
equivocation
- ambivalence,
- amphibology,
- dissimulation,
- tergiversation,
- Amphibologies,
- cover up,
- runaround,
- coverup,
- co loring,
- co lorings,
- co-loring,
- co-lorings,
- cop outs,
- dis simulation,
- dis simulations,
- dis-simulation,
- dis-simulations,
- dissimulations,
- fibbings,
- hedgings,
- lyings,
- mis representation,
- mis representations,
- mis-representation,
- quibbling routine,
- quibbling routines,
- shufflings,
- song dance.
- irresolution
- uncertainty
- obscurity
- ghost
- probability
-
insanity
- insaneness,
- irresponsibility,
- mental disorder,
- psychosis,
- Mental Disorders,
- Psychoses,
- witlessness,
- dis traction,
- dis tractions,
- dis-traction,
- dis-tractions,
- in sanities,
- in sanity,
- in-sanities,
- in-sanity,
- irresponsibilities,
- un balances,
- un reasonableness,
- un reasonablenesses,
- un-balances,
- un-reasonableness,
- un-reasonablenesses,
- witlessnesses.
- imagination
- deception
- failure
- crisis
- possibility
- supposition
- misinterpretation
- danger
- doubt
- anticipation
- apparition
- assumption
-
bait
- lure.
- blunder
- cloudiness
- cognition
- conjecture
- contingency
- defect
- diffidence
- enterprise
- event
- fancy
- hap
- imaginativeness
- indecisiveness
- insaneness
- instability
- misapprehension
- mistrust
- opinion
- postulation
- preconception
- presumption
- problem
- protestation
- romance
- sophistry
- unease
- unstableness
- vacillation
- accident
- acrimony
- adventure
- ambivalence
-
anxiety
- butterfly,
- cold sweat,
- fretfulness,
- unease,
- willies,
- worriment,
- Butterflies,
- Nail Biting,
- all overs,
- allovers,
- ants in pants,
- ants pants,
- cold sweats,
- dis quiet,
- dis quiets,
- dis quietude,
- dis quietudes,
- dis tress,
- dis tresses,
- dis-quiet,
- dis-quiets,
- dis-quietude,
- dis-quietudes,
- dis-tress,
- dis-tresses,
- fore boding,
- fore bodings,
- fore-boding,
- fretfulnesses,
- nail-biting,
- nail-bitings,
- nailbiting,
- pins needles.
- apprehension
-
attempt
- pursuits,
- all got,
- all gots,
- all one got,
- all one gots,
- all one's got,
- all one's gots,
- all ones got,
- all ones gots,
- one all,
- one alls,
- one darnedest,
- one darnedests,
- one level best,
- one level bests,
- one's all,
- one's alls,
- one's darnedest,
- one's darnedests,
- one's level best,
- one's level bests,
- ones all,
- ones alls,
- ones darnedest,
- ones darnedests,
- ones level best,
- ones level bests,
- under takings.
- bet
- blooper
- casualty
- chimera
- daydream
- delusion
-
disfavor
- doghouse,
- dis approbation,
- dis approbations,
- dis approval,
- dis approvals,
- dis credit,
- dis credits,
- dis esteem,
- dis esteems,
- dis favor,
- dis favors,
- dis honor,
- dis honors,
- dis inclination,
- dis inclinations,
- dis pleasure,
- dis pleasures,
- dis regard,
- dis regards,
- dis repute,
- dis reputes,
- dis respect,
- dis respects,
- dis satisfaction,
- dis satisfactions,
- dis taste,
- dis tastes,
- dis-approbation,
- dis-approbations,
- dis-approval,
- dis-approvals,
- dis-credit,
- dis-credits,
- dis-esteem,
- dis-esteems,
- dis-favor,
- dis-favors,
- dis-honor,
- dis-honors,
- dis-inclination,
- dis-inclinations,
- dis-pleasure,
- dis-pleasures,
- dis-regard,
- dis-regards,
- dis-repute,
- dis-reputes,
- dis-respect,
- dis-respects,
- dis-satisfaction,
- dis-satisfactions,
- dis-taste,
- dis-tastes,
- doghouses,
- in disposition,
- in dispositions,
- in-disposition,
- in-dispositions,
- un popularities,
- un popularity,
- unpopularities.
- distrust
- doubtfulness
- dream
-
exposure
- defenselessness,
- denudation,
- divulgence,
- giveaway,
- unveilings,
- airings,
- giveaways,
- barings,
- defenselessnesses,
- denudations,
- dis closure,
- dis closures,
- dis play,
- dis plays,
- dis-closure,
- dis-closures,
- dis-play,
- dis-plays,
- divulgences,
- divulgings,
- ex pose,
- ex-pose,
- laying open,
- laying opens,
- re velation,
- re velations,
- re-velation,
- re-velations,
- susceptiveness,
- susceptivenesses,
- un folding,
- un masking,
- un maskings,
- un veiling,
- un veilings,
- un-folding,
- un-masking,
- un-maskings,
- un-veiling,
- un-veilings,
- unmaskings.
-
fallacy
- elusion,
- faultiness,
- inexactness,
- invalidity,
- misconstrual,
- non sequitur,
- speciousness,
- spuriousness,
- elusions,
- faultinesses,
- in consistencies,
- in consistency,
- in exactness,
- in exactnesses,
- in validities,
- in validity,
- in-consistencies,
- in-consistency,
- in-exactness,
- in-exactnesses,
- in-validities,
- in-validity,
- inexactnesses,
- invalidities,
- misconstruals,
- non sequiturs,
- pre-conceptions,
- quibblings.
-
falsity
- fraudulence,
- unreality,
- Double dealing,
- fraudulences,
- dis ingenuousness,
- dis ingenuousnesses,
- dis-ingenuousness,
- dis-ingenuousnesses,
- doubledealing,
- in fidelities,
- in fidelity,
- in sincerities,
- in-fidelities,
- in-fidelity,
- un candidness,
- un candidnesses,
- un faithfulness,
- un realities,
- un reality,
- un-candidnesses,
- un-faithfulness,
- un-faithfulnesses,
- un-realities,
- uncandidnesses,
- unrealities.
- fantasy
- fluctuation
- fluke
- gamble
- guess
- hazard
-
hesitation
- fumbling,
- indecisiveness,
- irresoluteness,
- irresolution,
- procrastination,
- timidness,
- dawdlings,
- de lay,
- de laying,
- de lays,
- de-lay,
- de-laying,
- de-lays,
- delayings,
- fumblings,
- hemming and hawing,
- hemming and hawings,
- hemming hawing,
- hemming hawings,
- procrastinations,
- stumblings,
- un willingness,
- un willingnesses,
- un-willingness,
- un-willingnesses.
- illusion
- indefiniteness
- jeopardy
- juncture
- liability
- limbo
- lure
- maze
- miscarriage
- misgiving
-
mishap
- crack-up,
- fender-bender,
- stack up,
- crackup,
- crackups,
- ill fortune,
- crack ups,
- crack-ups,
- fender-benders,
- fenderbender,
- fenderbenders,
- ill fortunes,
- ill-fortune,
- ill-fortunes,
- illfortune,
- rear ender,
- rear enders,
- rear-ender,
- rear-enders,
- rearender,
- stack ups,
- stack-up,
- stack-ups,
- stackups,
- wrack up,
- wrack ups,
- wrack-ups,
- wrackup,
- wrackups.
- misprint
- miss
-
mistake
- gaffe,
- misprint,
- overestimation,
- underestimation,
- misprints,
- underestimations,
- false moves,
- in advertences,
- in-advertence,
- in-advertences,
- mis application,
- mis applications,
- mis print,
- mis prints,
- mis statement,
- mis statements,
- mis take,
- mis takes,
- mis-application,
- mis-applications,
- mis-print,
- mis-prints,
- mis-statement,
- mis-statements,
- mis-take,
- mis-takes,
- over estimation,
- over estimations,
- over-estimation,
- over-estimations,
- overestimations,
- slip of tongue,
- under estimation,
- under estimations,
- under-estimation,
- under-estimations.
- misunderstanding
- objection
- outlook
- peril
- qualm
- query
- ricketiness
- risk
- solecism
-
stress
- tautness,
- tenseness,
- tensity,
- tightness,
- overextensions,
- ex tension,
- ex-tension,
- ex-tensions,
- in tensity,
- in-tensity,
- nervous tension,
- nervous tensions,
- over extension,
- over extensions,
- over-extension,
- over-extensions,
- pro traction,
- pro tractions,
- pro-traction,
- pro-tractions,
- tautnesses,
- tensenesses,
- tensities,
- tightnesses.
- surmise
- suspicion
- theory
- turning point
- uneasiness
- whim
- upset
- risky or unexpected undertaking
- uncertainty of meaning
- worry, tension
- outward show; pretense
- anxiety, fear
- try, effort
- theorem
- quandary
-
game of chance; money gambled
- bet.
-
insecureness
- capriciousness,
- changeability,
- changeableness,
- disequilibrium,
- fickleness,
- fitfulness,
- impermanence,
- mutability,
- transience,
- unreliability,
- variability,
- Unfixedness,
- capriciousnesses,
- changeabilities,
- changeablenesses,
- dis equilibrium,
- dis equilibriums,
- dis-equilibrium,
- dis-equilibriums,
- disequilibriums,
- ficklenesses,
- fitfulnesses,
- impermanences,
- in secureness,
- in securenesses,
- in-secureness,
- in-securenesses,
- mutabilities,
- transiences,
- un fixedness,
- un fixednesses,
- un reliabilities,
- un-fixedness,
- un-fixednesses,
- un-reliabilities,
- un-reliability,
- unfixednesses,
- unreliabilities,
- variabilities.
-
circumstance, conditions
- case.
- overgeneral reasoning
- paradox
- positive assurance
- possibility, probability
- suspense
- dream, fantasy
- vagueness
- speculation, assumption
- chance happening; possibility
- critical situation
- hazard, troublesome situation
- fantasy thought of when awake
- casuistry
- blemish, imperfection
- misconception, misbelief
- hesitancy; lack of confidence
- thesis
- unbelief
- doubt, skepticism
- dislike; disgrace
- lack of faith in something
-
ambiguity
- inconclusiveness,
- indeterminateness,
- polysemy,
- Equivocacy,
- double meaning,
- double meanings,
- double-entendre,
- double-entendres,
- doubleentendre,
- doubleentendres,
- equivocacies,
- in certitude,
- in certitudes,
- in conclusiveness,
- in conclusivenesses,
- in determinateness,
- in determinatenesses,
- in-certitude,
- in-certitudes,
- in-conclusiveness,
- in-conclusivenesses,
- in-determinateness,
- in-determinatenesses,
- inconclusivenesses,
- indeterminatenesses,
- polysemies,
- polysemousness,
- polysemousnesses.
- lack of faith, conviction; questioning
- illusion, vision
- avoidance of an issue
- mistake; wrong
- occurrence, happening
- uncovering; putting in view or danger
- myth
- illusion, misconception
- dishonesty, deception
- impulse, urge
- imagination, dream
- chance occurrence
- chance, speculation
- belief, speculation
- waiting; uncertainty
- false appearance; false belief
- incorrectness
- miscount
- mental illness; foolishness
- burden, debt
- state of uncertainty
-
labyrinth; confusion
- maze.
- danger; pest
- imaginary vision
- misconception
- cynicism
- error, misunderstanding
- instance of having the wrong idea
-
fictitious story, often ancient
- myth.
- bad dream or experience
- probable future
- contradiction, puzzle
- danger, risk
- ghost; figment of the imagination
- feasibility, likelihood; chance
- precariousness
- presupposition
- idea formed before event occurs or facts are received
- belief, hypothesis
- likelihood of something happening
- difficulty; bad situation
- nagging doubt
- demand for answers
- controversy, doubt
-
chance taken
- risk.
- physical or mental pressure
- nightmare
- guess, belief
- guess, conclusion
- explanation based on hypothesis and experiments
- hypothesis, belief
- idea, concept
- warning; danger
- unclearness
- unsteadiness
- doubt, changeableness
- gamble, attempt
- money or something gambled
-
sudden idea
- whim.
- anxiety, trouble
- offense, sin
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
Antonym of the day
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- Antonyms:
- abandon, follow, misguide.
