definitive
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See also: définitive
English
Etymology
From Middle French définitif.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dɪˈfɪn.ɪ.tɪv/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American, General Australian) IPA(key): /dɪˈfɪn.ə.tɪv/,
Adjective
definitive (comparative more definitive, superlative most definitive)
- explicitly defined
- conclusive or decisive
- definitive vote
- She will have the definitive say in the matter, after consulting her board of directors.
- definite, authoritative and complete
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: , 2nd edition, London: A Miller, for Edw Dod and Nath Ekins, , →OCLC:
- A strict and definitive truth.
- 1838, William H Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic. , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: American Stationers’ Company; John B. Russell, →OCLC:
- Some definitive […] scheme of reconciliation.
- limiting; determining
- a definitive word
- (philately) general, not issued for commemorative purposes
- (obsolete) Determined; resolved.
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , line 424:
- Never crave him. We are definitive.
Derived terms
Translations
explicitly defined
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conclusive or decisive
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definite, authoritative and complete
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limiting; determining
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philately: not issued for commemorative purposes
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Noun
definitive (plural definitives)
- (grammar) a word, such as a definite article or demonstrative pronoun, that defines or limits something
- (philately) an ordinary postage stamp that is part of a series of all denominations or is reprinted as needed to meet demand
- Synonym: definitive stamp
Translations
philately: ordinary postage stamp
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Esperanto
Pronunciation
Adverb
definitive
German
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Adjective
definitive
- inflection of definitiv:
Italian
Adjective
definitive f pl
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /deː.fiː.niːˈtiː.u̯e/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /de.fi.niˈti.ve/,
Adjective
dēfīnītīve
References
- “definitive”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- definitive in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.