CONTINGENT 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

• securely placed or fastened or set

• (of a number) having a fixed and unchanging value

• fixed and unmoving

• incapable of being changed or moved or undone; e.g. "frozen prices"

• free from external control and constraint

• (of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence

• a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics)

• a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them

• (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces

• not controlled by a party or interest group

• continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place

• a series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals

• not capable of being reversed or returned to the original condition

• not capable of occurring or being accomplished or dealt with

• something that cannot be done

• totally unlikely

• (used of persons or their behavior) not acceptable or reasonable

• incapable of being avoided or prevented

• an unavoidable event

• invariably occurring or appearing

• absolutely essential

• anything indispensable

• unavoidably determined by prior circumstances