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surefire

surefire is the alternative form of sure-fire.

Meaning of sure-fire

Adjective

sure-fire (comparative more sure-fire, superlative most sure-fire)

  1. Guaranteed to work or happen.
    • That hat should be a sure-fire way to spot him in a crowd.

Forms of surefire

comparativemore surefire
superlativemost surefire

Questions about surefire

What is surefire the alternative form of?
Surefire is the alternative form of sure-fire.

Words near surefire in the dictionary

  1. sure-handedly
  2. sure-handedness
  3. sureball
  4. sured up
  5. suredaite
  6. surefire
  7. surefooted
  8. surefootedly
  9. surefootedness
  10. surehanded
  11. surehandedly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: surefire (page history and authors); sure-fire (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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