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Sure

adjective
(compar. surer; superl. surest)
1.
Having or feeling no doubt or uncertainty; confident and assured.  Synonym: certain.  "Was sure (or certain) she had seen it" , "Was very sure in his beliefs" , "Sure of her friends"
2.
Exercising or taking care great enough to bring assurance.  Synonym: certain.  "Be sure to lock the doors"
3.
Certain to occur; destined or inevitable.  Synonym: certain.  "His fate is certain" , "In this life nothing is certain but death and taxes" , "He faced certain death" , "Sudden but sure regret" , "He is sure to win"
4.
Physically secure or dependable.  "Was on sure ground"
5.
Reliable in operation or effect.  Synonym: certain.  "A sure way to distinguish the two" , "Wood dust is a sure sign of termites"
6.
(of persons) worthy of trust or confidence.  Synonym: trusted.
7.
Infallible or unfailing.
8.
Certain not to fail.
9.
Impossible to doubt or dispute.  Synonym: indisputable.
adverb
1.
Definitely or positively ('sure' is sometimes used informally for 'surely').  Synonyms: certainly, for certain, for sure, sure as shooting, sure enough, surely.  "She certainly is a hard worker" , "It's going to be a good day for sure" , "They are coming, for certain" , "They thought he had been killed sure enough" , "He'll win sure as shooting" , "They sure smell good" , "Sure he'll come"



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"Sure" Quotes from Famous Books



... daughter, cease thine evil mind, Cease thy fierce pride! For pride it is, and blind, To seek to outpass gods!—Love on and dare: A god hath willed it! And, since pain is there, Make the pain sleep! Songs are there to bring calm, And magic words. And I shall find the balm, Be sure, to heal thee. Else in sore dismay Were men, could not we women ...
— Hippolytus/The Bacchae • Euripides

... is slightly at fault, old man," he said. "I am sure Merriwell bowled over at least one man, and dodged one or two others, besides going down the field like a wild engine, with Princeton's fastest runner at his heels and unable to tackle him. Oh, it is not all luck with Merriwell, Thornton, as you would acknowledge, ...
— Frank Merriwell's Races • Burt L. Standish

... influenced by Josephine's final argument. For when she had said "No, I cannot come to the wedding," for about the fourth time, Josephine shot her last bolt in these words: "Oh, dear Leam, do come. I am sure Edgar will be hurt and displeased if you are not one of my bridesmaids. He will think you do not like the connection, and you know what a proud man he is: he will ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVII. No. 101. May, 1876. • Various

... Girshel, shaking his side-locks. 'Your honour doesn't believe me.... Ay... ay....' The Jew closed his eyes and slowly wagged his head to right and to left.... 'Oh, I know what his honour the officer would like.... I know,... to be sure I do!' ...
— The Jew And Other Stories • Ivan Turgenev

... had in the audience, a pitiless censor of his deeds and gestures, in the person of our friend Jehan Frollo du Moulin, that little student of yesterday, that "stroller," whom one was sure of encountering all over Paris, anywhere except before the rostrums ...
— Notre-Dame de Paris - The Hunchback of Notre Dame • Victor Hugo


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