No doubt/there is no doubt

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Barman

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Please consider the following sentences.

1) No doubt, you'll miss there some of the amenities you are used to in Kolkata. Still I don't think you'll feel altogether dull and bored.

2) There is no doubt that you'll miss there some of the amenities you are used to in Kolkata. Still I don't think you'll feel altogether dull and bored.

Is there any difference in the meaning of 'no doubt' in the sentences above?
 
Please consider the following sentences.

1) No doubt no comma here you'll miss [STRIKE]there[/STRIKE] some of the amenities you are used to in Kolkata there. Still, I don't think you'll feel [STRIKE]altogether[/STRIKE] totally/completely [STRIKE]dull and[/STRIKE] bored.

2) There is no doubt that you'll miss [STRIKE]there[/STRIKE] some of the amenities you are used to in Kolkata there. Still, I don't think you'll feel [STRIKE]altogether[/STRIKE] totally/completely [STRIKE]dull and[/STRIKE] bored.

Is there any difference in the meaning of 'no doubt' in the sentences above?

Please see my corrections above. Your position of "there" was unnatural.
We don't "feel dull". You can feel bored in a dull place.
 

In the first sentence, I wanted to use 'no doubt' in the sense of "Probably you'll miss some of the amenities you are used to in Kolkata there".

In the second sentence, I wanted to use 'no doubt' in the sense of "Certainly you'll miss some of the amenities you are used to in Kolkata there".
 
No doubt can't mean probably because it means for certain.
 
Dictionaries vary in quality and in philosophy. Some feel obliged to record all usages of words, even sloppy or incorrect ones.

I stand by what I said. No doubt means certainly, not probably. If you use it to mean, probably, Barman, many if not most people will misunderstand and think you meant certainly.
 
I think the definition is covering itself against examples where there may be some tiny doubt, but there shouldn't be any doubt with this. If there is, it is infinitesimally small IMO.
 
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