definitive
Meaning of definitive
- (of a conclusion or agreement) done or reached decisively and with authority.
a definitive decision
- (of a postage stamp) for general use and typically of standard design, not special or commemorative.
- a definitive postage stamp.
low-value British definitives simply have a portrait of the reigning monarch
late Middle English: from Old French definitif, -ive, from Latin definitivus, from definit- ‘set within limits’, from the verb definire (see define).
Information about definitive
Hyphenation of definitive
de-fin-i-tive
- It consists of 4 syllables and 10 chars.
- definitive is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
definitive synonyms
Meaning unequivocal:
Meaning authoritative:
Meaning determinate:
Meaning (of evidence or argument) having or likely to have the effect of proving a case; decisive:
Meaning allowing no further doubt or dispute:
Meaning basic or fundamental:
Meaning settling an issue; producing a definite result:
Meaning not subject to any conditions:
Meaning (of a person) not officially recognized as a practitioner of a particular profession or activity through having satisfied the relevant conditions or requirements:
Meaning not qualified or diminished in any way; total:
Meaning unambiguously explicit and direct:
Meaning consisting in or characterized by the presence rather than the absence of distinguishing features:
Meaning clearly stated or decided; not vague or doubtful:
definitive antonyms
Meaning arranged or existing for the present, possibly to be changed later:
Translation of definitive
- Spanish: definitivo, definitiva
- Portuguese: definitivo
- French: définitif
- Italian: definitivo
- German: definitiv
Words that rhyme with definitive
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