no doubt

• no-doubt

Inherited from Middle English ne doute, a calque of Old French saunz doute, itself borrowed unadapted into Middle English.^[1]

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no doubt (not comparable)

1. without a doubt; surely.

   No doubt you can provide a better definition//that is, there's no doubt that you can.

   • 1869, Justin Dewey Fulton, The true woman, page 108:

     […] 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.

   • 1853, Documents of the City of Boston:

     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.

   • 2009 July 19, Frank Bruni, “Foie Gras Palates, Hot Dog Pocketbooks”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     You, no doubt, will come to your own conclusion, based on yeastiness and maybe “crumb factor” and possibly “hole-to-dough ratio.”

   • 1994, Green Day, “Basket Case”, in Dookie:

     I am one of those melodramatic fools / Neurotic to the bone, no doubt about it

• without a doubt

• no-doubter

• bound to, outbond