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FOR SURE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not open to doubt
Example:
she wanted to go; that was for sure
Classified under:
Similar:
unquestionable (incapable of being questioned)
II. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Definitely or positively ('sure' is sometimes used informally for 'surely')
Example:
sure he'll come
Synonyms:
certainly; for certain; for sure; sure; sure as shooting; sure enough; surely
Classified under:
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Context examples:
Take your time, and you will get to know for sure.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
“Dat Buck for sure learn queek as anyt’ing.”
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
"Devil got them for sure, Massa Malone," said he.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There is no way of detecting such planetary systems around a black hole, and so no way to know for sure whether planets of this kind have yet formed.
(Thousands of Planets Could Be Orbiting around Black Holes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
But, because none of the past studies randomly assigned people to eat specific foods and then measured the results, scientists could not say for sure whether the processed foods were a problem on their own, or whether people eating them had health problems for other reasons, such as a lack of access to fresh foods.
(Heavily processed foods cause overeating and weight gain, National Institutes of Health)
“I doen't know,” said Mr. Peggotty, “for sure, when her 'art begun to fail her; but all the way to England she had thowt to come to her dear home. Soon as she got to England she turned her face tow'rds it. But, fear of not being forgiv, fear of being pinted at, fear of some of us being dead along of her, fear of many things, turned her from it, kiender by force, upon the road: “Uncle, uncle,” she says to me, “the fear of not being worthy to do what my torn and bleeding breast so longed to do, was the most fright'ning fear of all! I turned back, when my 'art was full of prayers that I might crawl to the old door-step, in the night, kiss it, lay my wicked face upon it, and theer be found dead in the morning.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
You will be busy, for sure.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
These fellows who attacked the inn tonight—bold, desperate blades, for sure—and the rest who stayed aboard that lugger, and more, I dare say, not far off, are, one and all, through thick and thin, bound that they'll get that money.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“All de tam I watch dat Buck I know for sure. Lissen: some dam fine day heem get mad lak hell an’ den heem chew dat Spitz all up an’ spit heem out on de snow. Sure. I know.”
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Mary did look up, and she did stare at me: the ladle with which she was basting a pair of chickens roasting at the fire, did for some three minutes hang suspended in air; and for the same space of time John's knives also had rest from the polishing process: but Mary, bending again over the roast, said only— Have you, Miss? Well, for sure!
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
