assured
part of speech
adjective (assured; more assured); verb (past form of assure: assure, assures, assured, assuring)
meaning for a pupil
1) Assured means sure and confident in yourself: «She gave an assured speech.» tree →
2) Assured means certain to happen: «Our win is assured.» tree →
3) (verb) If you assured someone, you told them firmly that something is true so they would not worry. tree →
sense in the lessons
In stories it shows a character's confidence or that a result is certain. In formal language, «rest assured» means «don't worry, it is certain». Phrases: «rest assured», «assured of», «self-assured».
examples
- The coach assured us that the game would go ahead. tree →
- Rest assured, your dog is safe with us. tree →
- She sounded calm and assured on stage. tree →
- With ten points ahead, their place in the final is assured. tree →
- The nurse assured me it would not hurt much. tree →
- He is a very self-assured boy. tree →
- Gangazara assured them of safety, and stopped them. tree →
note
Compare assure (to tell someone so they stop worrying), ensure (to make sure something happens) and insure (to protect with insurance). Assure takes a person: «I assured her.»
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «assured» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.