| certain | |
| 1. adj. Sure, positive, not doubting. | |
| I was certain of my decision. | |
| 2. adj. (obsolete) Determined; resolved. | |
| 3. adj. Not to be doubted or denied; established as a fact. | |
| 4. adj. Actually existing; sure to happen; inevitable. | |
| Bankruptcy is the certain outcome of your constant gambling and lending. | |
| 5. adj. Unfailing; infallible. | |
| 6. adj. Fixed or stated; regular; determinate. | |
| 7. adj. Not specifically named; indeterminate; indefinite; one or some; sometimes used independently as a noun, and meaning certain persons; see also "one". | |
| 8. det. Having been determined but not specified. The quality of some particular subject or object which is known by the speaker to have been specifically singled out among similar entities of its class. | |
| Certain people are good at running. | |
| 9. pron. (with of) Unnamed or undescribed members (of). | |
| There where serious objections to certain of the proposals. | |
| 10. n. (with "the") Something certain. | |
