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sure
/ʃʊɹ/
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What does sure mean?
adjective
- Physically secure and certain, non-failing, reliable.
- Certain in one's knowledge or belief.
- Certain to act or be a specified way.
More meanings (8)
adjective
- Certain to obtain something.
- (obsolete) Free from danger; safe; secure.
- (obsolete) Betrothed; engaged to marry.
adverb
- Without doubt, certainly.
- (archaic) Without fail, surely.
interjection
- Yes; of course.
- Yes; I guess; you could say that; a weak or noncommittal positive response.
- You're welcome; polite response to being thanked.
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IPA pronunciation
/ʃʊɹ/
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To be sure they always wasted a good deal of time getting in each other’s way and giggling at each other’s mistakes.
“I’m sure that piece of the one you made that we had for lunch in Idlewild two weeks ago was perfectly elegant.”
More book examples (3)
He felt sure he never could draw a safe breath again until that man was dead and he had seen the corpse.
“It is that you may lose your two other bets! Then we shall be sure not to be stopped on our journey!”
But I am sure the younger of our nature, That surfeit on their ease, will day by day Come here for physic.