Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Uncertainty

Nouns
  • uncertainty, incertitude, doubt
  • doubtfulness etc. adj.
  • dubiety, dubitation, dubitancy, dubitousness. hesitation, suspense
  • perplexity, embarrassment, dilemma, bewilderment
  • timidity etc. (fear) Fear
  • vacillation etc. Irresolution
  • diaporesis, indetermination. vagueness etc. adj.
  • haze, fog
  • obscurity etc. (darkness) Darkness
  • ambiguity etc. (double meaning) [Having a double sense] Equivocalness
  • contingency, dependence, dependency, double contingency, possibility upon a possibility
  • open question etc. (question) Inquiry [Subject of Inquiry. Question]
  • blind bargain, pig in a poke, leap in the dark, something or other
  • needle in a haystack, needle in a bottle of hay
  • roving commission. precariousness etc. adj.
  • fallibility.
Verbs
  • be uncertain etc. adj.
  • wonder whether. lose the clue, lose the clew, scent
  • miss one's way. not know what to make of etc. (unintelligibility) Unintelligibility, not know which way to turn, not know whether one stands on one s head or one's not know whether one stands on one s head or one's heels
  • float in a sea of doubt, hesitate, flounder
  • lose oneself, lose one's head
  • muddle one's brains. render uncertain etc. adj.
  • put out, pose, puzzle, perplex, embarrass
  • confuse, confound
  • bewilder, bother, molder, addle the wits, throw off the scent
  • keep in suspense. doubt etc. (disbelieve) Unbelief. Doubt
  • hang in the balance, tremble in the balance
  • depend.
Adjectives
  • uncertain
  • casual
  • random etc. (aimless) [Absence of purpose in the succession of events] Chance
  • changeable etc. Changeableness. doubtful, dubious
  • indecisive
  • unsettled, undecided, undetermined
  • in suspense, open to discussion
  • controvertible
  • in question etc. (inquiry) Inquiry [Subject of Inquiry. Question]. vague
  • indeterminate, indefinite
  • ambiguous, equivocal
  • undefined, undefinable
  • confused etc. (indistinct) Invisibility
  • mystic, oracular
  • dazed. perplexing etc. v.
  • enigmatic, paradoxical, apocryphal, problematical, hypothetical
  • experimental etc. Experiment. unpredictable, unforeseeable (unknowable) Unintelligibility. fallible, questionable, precarious, slippery, ticklish, debatable, disputable
  • unreliable, untrustworthy. contingent, contingent on, dependent on
  • subject to
  • dependent on circumstances
  • occasional
  • provisional. unauthentic, unauthenticated, unauthoritative
  • unascertained, unconfirmed
  • undemonstrated
  • untold, uncounted. in a state of uncertainty, in a cloud, in a maze
  • bushed, off the track
  • ignorant, c. Ignorance
  • afraid to say
  • out of one's reckoning, astray, adrift
  • at sea, at fault, at a loss, at one's wit's end, at a nonplus
  • puzzled etc. v.
  • lost, abroad, d_esorient_e
  • distracted, distraught.
Phrases
  • Heaven knows
  • who can tell, ? who shall decide when doctors disagree