uncertain (adj.)
- adrift
- afloat
- agnostic
- alternating
- ambiguous
- ambivalent
- amorphous
- blear
- bleary
- blurred
- blurry
- broken
- capricious
- catchy
- chancy
- changeable
- changeful
- choppy
- confused
- dark
- desultory
- dicey
- dim
- disconnected
- discontinuous
- distrustful
- dizzy
- doubtful
- doubting
- dubious
- eccentric
- enigmatic
- equivocal
- erratic
- faint
- feeble
- fickle
- filmy
- fitful
- flickering
- flighty
- fluctuating
- foggy
- freakish
- fuzzy
- giddy
- halting
- hazardous
- hazy
- hesitant
- hesitating
- iffy
- ill-defined
- impetuous
- impulsive
- incalculable
- inconsistent
- inconspicuous
- inconstant
- indecisive
- indefinite
- indistinct
- indistinguishable
- infirm
- insecure
- intermittent
- ironic
- irregular
- irresolute
- irresponsible
- jerky
- leery
- mazy
- mercurial
- mistrustful
- misty
- moody
- mutable
- mysterious
- nonuniform
- obscure
- pale
- patchy
- polysemantic
- polysemous
- protean
- questionable
- questioning
- rambling
- restless
- risky
- rocky
- rough
- roving
- scatterbrained
- scrappy
- scrupulous
- shadowy
- shaky
- shapeless
- shifting
- shifty
- shy
- skeptical
- spasmodic
- spastic
- speculative
- spineless
- sporadic
- spotty
- staggering
- suspecting
- suspicious
- tottery
- touch-and-go
- treacherous
- unaccountable
- unclear
- uncontrolled
- unconvinced
- undecided
- undefined
- undependable
- undetermined
- undisciplined
- unequal
- uneven
- unfixed
- unforeseeable
- unhealthy
- unmethodical
- unpersuaded
- unpredictable
- unprovable
- unrecognizable
- unreliable
- unresolved
- unrestrained
- unrhythmical
- unsafe
- unsettled
- unsound
- unstable
- unsteady
- unsure
- unsystematic
- untrusting
- untrustworthy
- unverifiable
- vacillating
- vagrant
- vague
- variable
- volatile
- wandering
- wanton
- wary
- wavering
- wavy
- wayward
- weak
- whimsical
- wishy-washy
- wobbling
- wobbly
A ruddy drop of manly blood
The surging sea outweighs;
The world uncertain comes and goes,
The lover rooted stays.
O woman! in our hours of ease
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,
And variable as the shade
By the light quivering aspen made;
When pain and anguish wring the brow,
A ministering angel thou!
O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day!
What is the end of fame? 'T is but to fill
A certain portion of uncertain paper.
It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that "Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,—being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity."
Life's uncertain voyage.
