beyond a doubt
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3.0
- idiom
:
sin duda
- Their artistic, historical, and ethnographic significance was proven beyond a doubt.
- prove beyond a doubt
Examples
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Clearly, the organization could not make its point with legal arguments alone and therefore set out to prove beyond a doubt that illegal legislation, once passed, was systematically implemented.
Academic text (1994) -
Though tribal tradition had always recognized the site was once important, the images showed beyond a doubt that there were still significant remains under the earth, reinforcing its importance.
Academic text (2002) -
After all, he knew for certain, beyond a doubt, that this was in fact a dream.
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We now know beyond a doubt that other forms of life exist in the universe.
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So we knew, beyond a doubt, that the wishing spot worked.
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Human beings are perhaps never more dangerous than when they are convinced beyond a doubt that they are right.
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She knew beyond a doubt that he loved her.
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That way, when you look at your totem... you know beyond a doubt that you're not in someone else's dream.
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But the comments Mr. Romney made earlier in the week not only revealed Mr. Romney's valorous sentiments on election night to be hollow, those words proved beyond a doubt that the initial interpretation of Mr. Romney's forty-seven percent comments was indeed accurate.
Blog text (2) -
We now know beyond a doubt that other forms of life exist in the universe.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Showing that something is true or will happen without any doubt
∞
1.0
Completely and without any doubt
∞
1.0
Without any doubt
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1.3
To be completely sure and have no doubt
56
3.9
In a clear way that leaves no doubt
37
6.9
In a clear way that leaves no doubt
29
4.4
In a clear way that leaves no doubt
26
3.7
Without any doubt
24
3.7
In a way that is certain
7
4.2
Completely certain with no doubt
7
5.4
In a way that is clearly true and cannot be doubted
7
2.3
Says that something is certainly true
4
2.8
Completely certain with no possible reason to think it is wrong
3
8.6
Clearly and without doubt
3
6.8
Clearly true and cannot be denied
3
4.6
In a way that shows there is no doubt
2
7.4
In a way that cannot be proved wrong
1
9.1
In a way that no one can doubt
1
9.1
In a way that cannot be blamed or criticized
1
9.0
Clearly true and cannot be doubted
1
6.1
It is clearly true and cannot be doubted
1
7.7
In a way nobody can doubt
1
6.9
Very likely and without any doubt
1
5.8
Clearly and without any doubt
Antonyms
How Certain
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'unquestionably certain' is directly derivable from combining 'beyond' (further than/ outside the range of) with 'doubt' (uncertainty); the article 'a' is only a grammatical marker and does not block compositional understanding. This is a common intensifying/negation pattern found across many languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will readily infer the idiomatic sense.
Etymology
Beyond a doubt gives a simple picture: the word beyond means 'on the other side of' and doubt is the worry or question, so if something is on the other side it is past the worry. So, beyond a doubt means 'completely sure'.