Usually means: Certain, confident, without any doubt.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word sure:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. sure: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sure: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sure: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sure: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sure: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sure, sure, sure: Wordnik
  7. sure: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sure: Wiktionary
  9. sure: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sure: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sure: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sure: Dictionary.com
  13. sure: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sure: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. SURE, SuRe, Sure(Debbie Gibson song), Sure (Cable & Wireless), Sure (Cable and Wireless), Sure (Debbie Gibson song), Sure (Every Little Thing album), Sure (Every Little Thing single), Sure (Every Little Thing song), Sure (Take That song), Sure (brand), Sure (company), Sure (disambiguation), Sure: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sure: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sure: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sure: Rhymezone
  19. sure: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sure: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. sure: Free Dictionary
  22. sure: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. sure: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. sure: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. Sure (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SURE: Glossary of research economics
  2. sure: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sure: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Sure: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SURE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. sure: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sure, sure, sure: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See sureness as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Physically secure and certain, non-failing, reliable.
adjective:  Certain in one's knowledge or belief.
adjective:  (followed by a to infinitive) Certain to act or be a specified way.
adjective:  (obsolete) Free from danger; safe; secure.
adjective:  (obsolete) Betrothed; engaged to marry.
adverb:  (modal adverb) Without doubt, certainly.
adverb:  (archaic) Without fail, surely.

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