definitely

Academic Word List, sublist 7.

About 13.53 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adverb Without question and beyond doubt.

   Joe definitely doesn't know how to drive a tractor.

2. adverb In a definite manner; decisively.

Similar words

decidedly unquestionably emphatically by all odds undoubtedly surely indubitably unambiguously unequivocally doubtlessly

Often followed by

not a the be to in known established that

Word family

definite definitely not definitive