ASSURED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does assured mean? 

• ASSURED (adjective)
  The adjective ASSURED has 2 senses:

1. marked by assurance; exhibiting confidence

2. characterized by certainty or security

  Familiarity information: ASSURED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASSURED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked by assurance; exhibiting confidence

Context example:

she paints with an assured hand

Similar:

confident (having or marked by confidence or assurance)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Characterized by certainty or security

Context example:

we can never have completely assured lives

Similar:

secure (free from danger or risk)

Derivation:

assuredness (great coolness and composure under strain)

 Context examples 

She assured him that she had not.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

"He'll be all right after a time," she assured him, while she wondered what the trouble was that Martin was in.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But you may be assured that I am the last person in the world to judge you severely.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I slept about eight hours, as I was afterwards assured; and it was no wonder, for the physicians, by the emperor’s order, had mingled a sleepy potion in the hogsheads of wine.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I assured her we were alone.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was in vain that our guide assured him that a fall of stones was a common chance in the spring-time at that spot.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I am assured that it is safe at Northampton; and there it has probably been these ten days, in spite of the solemn assurances we have so often received to the contrary.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I assured him that I could not.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I assured him that I was not offended.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had assured her, he said, that it was all nonsense; and he had nothing more to say to her.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)