sure enough

adverb

1. as supposed or expected (Freq. 3)

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sure enough, he asked her for money again

2. definitely or positively (`sure' is sometimes used informally for `surely') (Freq. 3)

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the results are surely encouraging

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she certainly is a hard worker

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it's going to be a good day for sure

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they are coming, for certain

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they thought he had been killed sure enough

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he'll win sure as shooting

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they sure smell good

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sure he'll come

• Syn: ↑surely, ↑certainly, ↑sure, ↑for sure, ↑for certain, ↑sure as shooting

• Derived from adjective: ↑certain (for: ↑certainly), ↑sure (for: ↑surely)

• Usage Domain: ↑colloquialism

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adverb

: as one might confidently expect : certainly, definitely, positively

in most cases the spontaneity is there, sure enough — Times Literary Supplement

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sure enough

1. No doubt

2. In very fact

3. Accordingly

4. There's no denying

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Main Entry: ↑sure

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sure enough phrase

used for saying that something happened exactly as you thought it would

I had a feeling we’d get lost, and sure enough, we did.

Thesaurus: ways of saying that you are not surprised_synonym

Main entry: sure

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informal used to introduce a statement that confirms something previously predicted

when X-rays were taken, sure enough, there was the needle

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sure enough — see ↑sure, 2

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Main Entry: ↑enough

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sure enough

— used to say that what happened was not surprising or unexpected

We were finally ready to go outside, and sure enough, it started to rain.

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Main Entry: ↑sure

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ˌsure eˈnough idiom

used to say that sth happened as expected

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I said he'd forget, and sure enough he did.

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‘Stop,’ she said, ‘I can hear something.’ Sure enough, in the distance we could hear the sound of a car approaching.

Main entry: ↑sure_idiom