Unsure

Definition: Unsure

Unsure

Adjective

1. Lacking or indicating lack of confidence or assurance; "uncertain of his convictions"; "unsure of himself and his future"; "moving with uncertain (or unsure) steps"; "an uncertain smile"; "touched the ornaments with uncertain fingers".

2. Not safe from danger or mishap; "faced an uncertain future"; "an unsure existence".

3. Lacking self-confidence; "stood in the doorway diffident and abashed"; "problems that call for bold not timid responses"; "a very unsure young man".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "unsure" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonyms: Unsure

Crosswords: Unsure

And it's unsure! No one here is even interested in learning the truth-- a truth that must be known (The Big O; writing credit: Masanao Akahoshi; Kei'ichi Hasegawa)

I am unsure - he is concealing it. (Stargate SG-1; writing credit: Robert C. Cooper; Brad Wright)

Doesn't matter if you're feeling so unsure (Doesn't Really Matter; performing artist: Janet)

Tomorrow looks unsure (Breakout; performing artist: Swing Out Sister)

I feel so unsure, (Careless Whisper; performing artist: Wham!)

Is one thing that will always be unsure. (Understanding; performing artist: Xscape)

Unsure Runts (1946)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Canadian Economic Forecasting: In a World Where All's Unsure (reference)

• Strengthening the U.S.-Japan Partnership in the 1990s: Ensuring the Alliance in an Unsure World (Significant Issues Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Unsure on identity, possibly, a historical state director for the BLM. Credit: Unknown.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Researchers are still unsure why sudden unexplained death occurs. (references)

Call when you have questions or if you are unsure whether something should be reported. (references)

Diagnosis should be made by a health care provider if you are unsure about infestation or if treatment is not successful. (references)

Economic History

Lebanon

The presence of many international chains such as Starwood, Accor, Holiday Inn, Marriott and Inter-Continental hotels in Lebanon offers reassurance to travelers still unsure of Beirut as a travel destination. (references)

India

If a U.S. aviation firm is unsure if their individual export sale or investment is in violation of any U.S. law, they are advised to contact the Bureau of Export Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce in Washington, D.C. (references)

Travel

Vietnam

If you are unsure how to address someone, just ask for advice. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "unsure": be unsure about smth. ♦ be unsure of oneself ♦ be unsure of smth. ♦ make unsure. Additional references.

Albanian

i pasigurt (chancy, crazy, Dickey, dicky, disputable, doubtful, dubious, faithless, fly-by-night, incalculable, insecure, precarious, questionable, touch and go, tricksy, trustless, truthless, unassured, uncertain, unclear, unreliable, unsafe, unsteady, untrustworthy), i pacaktuar (indefinite, indeterminate, inexplicit, vague). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съмнителен (alleged, ambiguous, amphibious, dingy, disputable, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, fishy, fly-by-night, hedge, hole-and-corner, indeterminate, moot, off beat, phoney, precarious, problematic, queer, questionable, screwy, seedy, shady, shaky, suspect, suspicious, uncertain, vague), опасен (adventurous, awkward, breakneck, dangerous, hazardous, hot, insecure, lively, parlous, perilous, pestiferous, precarious, redoubtable, risky, rocky, rum, rummy, slippery, slippy, trappy, ugly, unchancy, unsafe, virulent, volatile, warm), несигурен (build on sand, chancy, dangerous, disputable, dubious, equivocal, faltering, halting, insecure, irresolute, long, pendulous, precarious, problematic, queasy, risky, rocky, shaky, slippy, suspensive, tentative, top heavy, tottery, treacherous, uncertain, uneasy, unreliable, unresolved, unsafe, unsettled, unsound, unsteady, untrustworthy, variable, versatile, wonky). (various references)

Chinese 

缺乏信心. (various references)

Czech

nejistý (afloat, chancy, cloudy, doubtful, dubious, faltering, fluid, halting, insecure, jumpy, precarious, shaky, suspensive, tenuous, uncertain, undecided, uneasy, uneven, unsafe, unsettled, unsound). (various references)

Finnish

epävarma itsestään (unsure of oneself). (various references)

German

unzuverlässig (disaffectedly, dodgy, faithless, uncertain, undependable, unreliable, unreliably, unsound, untrustworthy), unsicher (chancy, dangerous, doubtful, dubious, halting, haltingly, hazardous, insecure, insecurely, instable, jumpy, precarious, precariously, shaky, uncertain, uncertainly, uneasily, uneasy, uneven, unsafe, unsafely, unsettled, unsound, unstable, unstably, unsteady, wild). (various references)

Greek 

όχι βέβαιοσ, αβέβαιοσ (equivocal, precarious, touch and go, uncertain, vague). (various references)

Hungarian

bizonytalan (choppy, cranky, dicey, dim, dubious, elusive, equivocal, faint, faltering, fickle, have cold feet, hazy, hesitating, indefinite, indeterminate, insecure, irresolute, nondescript, obscure, pennky, precarious, questionable, sandy, scratchy, shaky, speculative, suspensive, to be in the air, to hang in the air, to hang in the balance, transcendental, uncertain, unsettled, unsteady, vague, woozy). (various references)

Indonesian

tak percaya, celam-celum (uncertain). (various references)

Italian

malsicuro (aleatory, insecure, uncertain, unreliable, unsafe, unsound, unstably, unsteady). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

自信なし (uncertain), 心許ない (uneasy, unreliable). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

こころもとない (uneasy, unreliable), じしんなし (uncertain). (various references)

Korean 

불확실한 (indeterminate). (various references)

Pig Latin

ureunsay.(various references)

Portuguese

pouco sólido (flimsy, insecure, unsound), pouco firme (incompact, infirm, insecure, niddle-noddle, rattletrap, shaky, shifting, tottering, tottery, uncertain, unsafe, unsound, unstable, unsteady, weak-kneed, wobbly, wonky), inseguro (brittle, insecure, jumpy, shaky, unreliable, unsafe, unstable, unsteady), inconstante (astatic, capricious, changeable, changeful, desultory, fanciful, fickle, flighty, giddy, impermanent, inconstant, light-minded, mutable, shifting, skittish, uncertain, unequable, unequal, unreliable, unstable, variable, versatile), incerto (borderline, chancy, double-minded, doubtful, doubting, dubious, fitful, floating, hazardous, incalculable, inconstant, insecure, kittle, lubricous, precarious, problematic, questionable, risky, shaky, shifting, slippery, slippy, tottery, touch and go, touch-and-go, unassured, uncertain, undecided, unreliable, unsettled, unstable), duvidoso (controversial, disputable, doubtful, doubting, dubious, fishy, questionable, shaky, suspicious, unassured, uncertain, unreliable, untrustworthy). (various references)

Russian 

неуверенный (erratic, insecure of, unassured, uncertain), неопределенный (atemporal, chancy, dusty, hazy, iffy, imponderable, imprecise, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, inexplicit, infinite, infinitive, lax, suspenseful, uncertain, undefined, undetermined, unspecified, vague), ненадежный (dicky, fair weather, fast and loose, fly-by-night, incalculable, insecure, precarious, shaky, slippery, tricksy, troublesome, trustless, truthless, uncertain, undependable, unreliable, unsafe, unsound, untrustworthy, wonky). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nesiguran (dickey, dicky, diffident, dotty, doubtful, faltering, insecure, precarious, shaky, uncertain, uneasy, unsafe, unsound, waggly, wildcat, wonky). (various references)

Spanish

inseguro (diffident, doubtful, doubting, firmless, insecure, loose, self conscious, shaky, uncertain, unsafe, unsteady, untrustworthy). (various references)

Swedish

osäker (doubtful, fluid, iffy, insecure, precarious, shaky, touch and go, uncertain, unsafe, unsettled, vague). (various references)

Turkish

riskli (adventurous, chancy, dangerous, Dicey, dodgy, forbidding, hairy, hazardous, not healthy, precarious, risky, touch and go, venturesome, wildcat), emniyetsiz (insecure, unsafe), emin olmayan (uncertain, unconvinced, unsafe). (various references)

Ukrainian

невпевнений (uncertain, unclear, unconfident), невизначений (ambiguous, indefinable, twilight, uncertain, undetermined, vague), ненадійний (chancy, faithless, fallible, incalculable, insecure, precarious, questionable, ramshackle, shifty, tickle, treacherous, trustless, truthless, unassured, unreliable, unsafe, untrustworthy, wacky, whacky). (various references)

Vietnamese 

không xác thật, không chắc chắn không thật. (various references)

incerta, incertam, incerti, incerto, incertum, incertus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "unsure": unsurely. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Unsure" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ansorge, Duncrue, dunscri, Dunsmure, Nusur, onsire, ufsquare, unassumed, uncure, unscr, unser, unsurp, unzure, usare, usura. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: nurse, runes.

-2 letters: erns, rues, rune, runs, ruse, suer, sure, urns, urus, user.

-3 letters: ens, ern, ers, nus, res, rue, run, sen, ser, sue, sun, uns, urn, use.

-4 letters: en, er, es, ne, nu, re, un, us.

+2 letters: cernuous, coenurus, neurulas, numerous, nurtures, prunuses, uncursed, unrushed, unrusted, unsoured, unsurely, untruest.

+3 letters: burnouses, frenulums, furuncles, junctures, longueurs, menstruum, nurturers, penurious, punctures, pursuance, strenuous, sunburned, superfund, unbruised, unbrushed, unburdens, underbuds, underbuys, undercuts, underfurs, underruns, underused, uninsured, unpuckers, unrestful, unruliest, unsecured, unserious, unsounder, untrussed, untrusses, venturous.

+4 letters: burgundies, butternuts, ceruminous, countersue, furnitures, gunrunners, hausfrauen, innumerous, menstruums, numerously, outnumbers, plunderous, pronucleus, pursuances, purulences, repursuing, roundhouse, ruefulness, rumrunners, rutheniums, subnuclear, subroutine, superfunds, superhuman, superlunar, surmounted, surrounded, thunderous, uncensured, unchurches, unclutters, uncouplers, uncrumples, underbrush, underfunds, undershrub, underslung, understudy, ungenerous, unmeasured, unruliness, unsaturate.