no doubt
See also: no-doubt
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle English ne doute, a calque of Old French saunz doute, itself borrowed unadapted into Middle English.[1]
Pronunciation
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Adverb
[edit]no doubt (not comparable)
- without a doubt; surely.
- No doubt you can provide a better definition//that is, there's no doubt that you can.
- It's no doubt the case that the internet enslaves us.
- No doubt you’ll have heard the news by now.
- 1869, Justin Dewey Fulton, The true woman, page 108:
- […] the neglect of domestic duties, on the part of many wives, is, no doubt, attributable to the slovenly tenements, and inadequate providings, and careless neglect of the husbands.
- 1853, Documents of the City of Boston:
- The thoroughness required by your explicit instructions, together with the strong desire that these repeated canvassings should be executed in so careful a manner as to establish reliable data, has no doubt tended materially to produce the gratifying result.
- 2009 July 19, Frank Bruni, “Foie Gras Palates, Hot Dog Pocketbooks”, in New York Times[1]:
- You, no doubt, will come to your own conclusion, based on yeastiness and maybe “crumb factor” and possibly “hole-to-dough ratio.”
- 1994, Green Day, “Basket Case”, in Dookie:
- I am one of those melodramatic fools / Neurotic to the bone, no doubt about it
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[edit]without a doubt — see also without a doubt
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