undoubted
English
Etymology
From Middle English undouted, undoutid, equivalent to un- + doubted.
Pronunciation
Adjective
undoubted (comparative more undoubted, superlative most undoubted)
- Without doubt; without question; certain.
- His undoubted skill meant that he was in much demand.
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, Act II, Scene 1,[1]
- More should I question thee, and more I must,
- Though more to know could not be more to trust,
- From whence thou camest, how tended on: but rest
- Unquestion’d welcome and undoubted blest.
- 1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, pages 1–2, lines 8–11:
- Thou Spirit who ledſt this glorious Eremite / Into the Deſert, his Victorious Field / Againſt the Spiritual Foe, and broughtſt him thence / By proof the undoubted Son of God, […]
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Volume II, Chapter 12,[2]
- Of what he has particularly accused me I am ignorant; but of the truth of what I shall relate, I can summon more than one witness of undoubted veracity.
- 1923, “Current Situation,” Time, 3 December, 1923,[3]
- The place of psychology in business is undoubted; whether it can prevail against more concrete and material facts, and if so, how long, remain debatable propositions.
- 2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport[4]:
- Netherlands, one of the pre-tournament favourites, combined their undoubted guile, creativity, pace and attacking quality with midfield grit and organisation.