WOULD-BE Antonyms

• having or feeling no doubt or uncertainty; confident and assured

• established beyond doubt or question; definitely known

• certain to occur; destined or inevitable

• established irrevocably

• definite but not specified or identified

• reliable in operation or effect

• exercising or taking care great enough to bring assurance

• precise; explicit and clearly defined

• known for certain

• brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established

• settled securely and unconditionally

• conforming with accepted standards

• shown to be valid beyond a reasonable doubt

• introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation

• having experience; having knowledge or skill from observation or participation

• engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or means of livelihood

• of or relating to or suitable as a profession

• characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession

• of or relating to a profession

• a person engaged in one of the learned professions

• an athlete who plays for pay

• an authority qualified to teach apprentices

• engaged in by members of a profession

• meeting the proper standards and requirements and training for an office or position or task

• limited or restricted; not absolute

• holding appropriate documentation and officially on record as qualified to perform a specified function or practice a specified skill

• restricted in meaning; (as e.g. `man' in `a tall man')

• contingent on something else

• having succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome