Certainly not
Surely not and certainly not are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Surely not" instead an adverb phrase "Certainly not".
Surely not
Certainly not and surely not are semantically related. You can use "Certainly not" instead an adverb phrase "Surely not".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- hardly and certainly not
- hardly and surely not
- scarcely and certainly not
- scarcely and surely not
- by no means and certainly not
- by no means and surely not
- not at all and certainly not
- not at all and surely not
- not and certainly not
- not and surely not
- noways and certainly not
- noways and surely not
- noway and certainly not
- noway and surely not
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