definitive
Academic Word List, sublist 7.
About 6.50 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Explicitly defined.
- adjective Determining finally, conclusive, decisive.
definitive vote
- adjective Definite, authoritative and complete.
- adjective Limiting; determining.
a definitive word
- adjective General, not issued for commemorative purposes.
- adjective Determined; resolved.
- noun a word, such as a definite article or demonstrative pronoun, that defines or limits something
- noun an ordinary postage stamp that is part of a series of all denominations or is reprinted as needed to meet demand
Similar words
determinate explicit conclusive standard authoritative unequivocal classical expressed definite determinant
Often followed by
diagnosis answer treatment and treaty statement answers study work
Word family
definite definitely definitively definitiveness definitivenesses definitives
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