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NO DOUBT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does no doubt mean? 

NO DOUBT (adverb)
  The adverb NO DOUBT has 1 sense:

1. admittedlyplay

  Familiarity information: NO DOUBT used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


NO DOUBT (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Admittedly

Synonyms:

no doubt; to be sure; without doubt

Context example:

to be sure, he is no Einstein


 Context examples 


I have no doubt of it, but are these your only reasons for this sudden fancy?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Then both the sisters were overjoyed to hear it; for they had beautiful feet, and had no doubt that they could wear the golden slipper.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

For the first, we had each, no doubt, our own pressing personal affairs to absorb us.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The actual number of such events is no doubt higher.

(Study Predicts Next Global Dust Storm on Mars, NASA)

“I have no doubt it will be a girl. I have a presentiment that it must be a girl. Now child, from the moment of the birth of this girl—”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You have gained wisdom, grown in authority, and no doubt taken on responsibilities that previously you would have felt were beyond your capabilities.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

You will come to the same region of happiness: be received by the same mighty, universal Parent, no doubt, dear Jane.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“Jekyll,” said Utterson, “you know me: I am a man to be trusted. Make a clean breast of this in confidence; and I make no doubt I can get you out of it.”

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“And there's something under that, no doubt—something, surely, under that, Jim—bad or good.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The Swiss youth was never found again, and there can be no doubt that he was one of the numerous agents whom Moriarty kept in his employ.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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