UNCERTAINTY

[ʌn`sɜːtntɪ]

неуверенность, нерешительность; колебание, нетвердость, сомнения

неизвестность, неясность, неопределенность

недостоверность, сомнительность

изменчивость, переменчивость

uncertainty: translation

▪ considerable, great, high (esp. AmE), significant, substantial

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The 1990s were a period of high uncertainty for businesses.

▪ fundamental

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It still leaves us with fundamental uncertainties about why the famine happened.

▪ inherent

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the inherent uncertainty in economic and budgetary forecasts

▪ current

▪ growing

▪ continuing, lingering

▪ economic, financial, legal, political, scientific

▪ amount, degree, element

▪ cause, create, generate, give rise to (esp.BrE), introduce, lead to

▪ add, add to, increase

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Her comments will add to the uncertainty of the situation.

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Her comments will add uncertainty to an already complicated situation.

▪ reduce

▪ eliminate, end, remove, resolve

▪ bring an end to (BrE), put an end to (esp. BrE)

▪ express, show

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I expressed some uncertainty on the point.

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Her expression showed her uncertainty.

▪ face

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They are facing some uncertainty about their jobs.

▪ surround sth

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the uncertainty surrounding the proposed changes in the law

▪ exist

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Some uncertainty still exists about the safety of the new drug.

▪ remain

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Considerable uncertainty remains about this approach.

▪ uncertainty about

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a feeling of uncertainty about his future

▪ uncertainty as to

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There's considerable uncertainty as to whether the government's job creation strategies will work.

▪ uncertainty in

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There is considerable uncertainty in our understanding of global warming.

▪ uncertainty over

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uncertainty over the safety of the drug

▪ uncertainty regarding

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This will remove any uncertainties regarding possible contamination.

▪ an area of uncertainty

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One area of uncertainty remains: who will lead the team?

▪ an atmosphere of uncertainty, a climate of uncertainty

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a climate of global economic uncertainty

▪ a feeling of uncertainty, a moment of uncertainty

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Chris experienced a moment of uncertainty.

▪ a period of uncertainty, a source of uncertainty

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The economy became a source of uncertainty and discontent.

uncertainty: translation

Pyrrhonism, accidentality, actuarial calculation, adventitiousness, agitation, ambiguity, ambiguousness, ambitendency, ambivalence, amphibology, anxiety, apprehension, arrhythmia, bleariness, blur, blurriness, bother, break, brokenness, calculated risk, capriciousness, casualness, chance, chanciness, change of mind, changeableness, choppiness, cliff-hanging, complexity of meaning, concern, criticalness, darkness, defocus, delicacy, destiny, desultoriness, deviability, diffidence, dimness, disconnectedness, discontinuity, disquiet, distress, distrust, distrustfulness, double entendre, double meaning, double reference, double-mindedness, doubt, doubtfulness, dread, dubiety, dubiousness, eccentricity, equivocacy, equivocality, equivocalness, erraticism, erraticness, expectant waiting, faintness, fate, feebleness, fence-sitting, fence-straddling, fibrillation, fickleness, filminess, fitfulness, fits and starts, flier, flightiness, fluctuation, flukiness, fogginess, fortuitousness, fortuity, fortune, freakishness, fuzziness, gamble, good fortune, good luck, half-belief, half-visibility, hap, happenstance, happy chance, hazard, hazardousness, haziness, heedless hap, hesitation, how they fall, impulsiveness, incertitude, inconsistency, inconstancy, indecision, indecisiveness, indefiniteness, indeterminacy, indeterminateness, indistinctness, indistinguishability, infirmity of purpose, insecurity, instability, intermittence, irony, irregularity, irresolution, jerkiness, law of averages, leeriness, levels of meaning, lot, low profile, luck, mercuriality, misdoubt, misgiving, mistiness, mistrust, mistrustfulness, moira, moodiness, mugwumpery, mugwumpism, multivocality, opportunity, paleness, paronomasia, patchiness, perilousness, perturbation, pessimism, play, plunge, polysemousness, polysemy, precariousness, principle of indeterminacy, probability, problematicness, punning, query, question, random sample, reserve, restlessness, richness of meaning, risk, riskiness, roughness, run of luck, salt, scruple, scrupulousness, second thoughts, self-doubt, semivisibility, serendipity, shadow of doubt, shadowiness, shakiness, shiftiness, skepticalness, skepticism, slipperiness, soft focus, spasticity, speculation, sporadicity, sporadicness, spottiness, stagger, statistical probability, suspense, suspicion, suspiciousness, sword of Damocles, tergiversation, the breaks, theory of probability, ticklish business, ticklishness, total skepticism, totteriness, touchiness, trouble, uncertainty principle, unclearness, undecidedness, undependability, undeterminedness, uneasiness, unevenness, unfixedness, unhealthiness, unmethodicalness, unplainness, unpredictability, unreliability, unsafeness, unsettledness, unsettlement, unsoundness, unstableness, unsteadfastness, unsteadiness, unsureness, unsystematicness, untrustworthiness, vague appearance, vagueness, variability, variation, variety, venture, waiting, wantonness, wariness, waywardness, weakness, whatever comes, whimsicality, wobble, wonder, worry