N. discontinuity, disjunction,
anacoluthon,
interruption, break, fracture,
flaw, fault,
crack, cut,
gap, solution of continuity,
caesura, broken thread,
parenthesis,
episode,
rhapsody,
patchwork,
intermission,
alternation, dropping fire
V. be discontinuous, alternate,
intermit,
sputter, stop and start,
hesitate, discontinue,
pause,
interrupt,
intervene, break, break in upon, break off,
interpose, break the thread, snap the thread, disconnect,
dissever Adj. discontinuous, unsuccessive, broken, interrupted, dicousu, disconnected, unconnected,
discrete,
disjunctive, fitful,
spasmodic,
desultory,
intermitting,
occasional,
intermittent, alternate, recurrent
Adv. at intervals, by snatches, by jerks, by skips, by catches, by fits and starts,
skippingly, per saltum, longo intervallo
Phr. like "angel visits few and far between"
N. uncertainty,
incertitude, doubt, doubtfulness,
dubiety,
dubitation, dubitancy|, dubitousness,
hesitation,
suspense,
perplexity,
embarrassment,
dilemma,
bewilderment,
timidity,
vacillation,
diaporesis, indetermination, vagueness,
haze,
fog, obscurity,
ambiguity,
contingency,
dependence,
dependency, double contingency, possibility upon a possibility, open question, onus probandi, blind bargain, pig in a poke, leap in the dark, something or other, needle in a haystack, needle in a bottle of hay, roving commission,
precariousness,
fallibility V. be uncertain, wonder whether, lose the clue, lose the clew,
scent, miss one's way, not know what to make of, not know which way to turn, not know whether one stands on one's head or one's heels, float in a sea of doubt,
hesitate,
flounder, lose oneself, lose one's head, muddle one's brains, render uncertain, put out,
pose,
puzzle,
perplex,
embarrass,
confuse,
confound,
bewilder, bother,
molder, addle the wits, throw off the scent, ambiguas in vulgus spargere voces, keep in suspense, doubt, hang in the balance, tremble in the balance, depend
Adj. uncertain,
casual,
random, changeable, doubtful,
dubious, indecisive, unsettled, undecided, undetermined, in suspense, open to discussion,
controvertible, in question, vague,
indeterminate, indefinite,
ambiguous,
equivocal, undefined,
undefinable, confused,
mystic,
oracular,
dazed,
perplexing,
enigmatic,
paradoxical,
apocryphal,
problematical,
hypothetical, experimental, unpredictable, unforeseeable (unknowable) 519, fallible, questionable,
precarious,
slippery,
ticklish,
debatable, disputable,
unreliable, untrustworthy,
contingent, contingent on, dependent on, subject to, dependent on circumstances,
occasional,
provisional, unauthentic,
unauthenticated, unauthoritative, unascertained, unconfirmed, undemonstrated, untold, uncounted, in a state of uncertainty, in a cloud, in a maze,
bushed, off the track, ignorant,
&c. 491, afraid to say, out of one's reckoning,
astray,
adrift, at sea, at fault, at a loss, at one's wit's end, at a nonplus,
puzzled, lost, abroad, dsorient, distracted,
distraught Adv. pendente lite, sub spe rati
Phr. heaven knows, who can tell? who shall decide when doctors disagree? ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces
