no doubt
advEtymology Inherited from Middle English ne doute, a calque of Old French saunz doute, itself borrowed unadapted into Middle English.
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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.
4 more examples
- […] 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.1869, Justin Dewey Fulton, The true woman, page 108:
- 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.1853, Documents of the City of Boston:
- You, no doubt, will come to your own conclusion, based on yeastiness and maybe “crumb factor” and possibly “hole-to-dough ratio.”2009 July 19, Frank Bruni, “Foie Gras Palates, Hot Dog Pocketbooks”, in New York Times:
- I am one of those melodramatic fools / Neurotic to the bone, no doubt about it1994, Green Day, “Basket Case”, in Dookie:
- Synonyms
- without a doubt
- Derived terms
- no-doubter