definitely

English

Etymology

definite +‎ -ly

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛf.ɪnɪt.li/, /ˈdɛf.ənɪt.li/, /ˈdɛf.nɪt.li/

• Audio (US):

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Adverb

definitely (comparative more definitely, superlative most definitely)

1. Without question and beyond doubt.

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

2. In a definite manner; decisively.
   • (Can we date this quote by Nikolai Gogol and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?), The Nose (in translation)

     And the Nose definitely turned away.

Translations

without question and beyond doubt

• Arabic: بِالتَّأْكِيد (bi-t-taʔkīd)
• Belarusian: пэ́ўна (péŭna), напэ́ўна (napéŭna)
• Bulgarian: със сигурност (sǎs sigurnost)
• Catalan: definitivament (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 肯定 (zh) (kěndìng), 定然 (zh) (dìngrán)

• Czech: rozhodně (cs), určitě (cs)
• Dutch: zeker (nl), zeker weten, zonder twijfel
• Finnish: ehdottomasti (fi), varmasti (fi)
• French: décidément (fr), certainement (fr), sans conteste (fr), assurément (fr)
• Galician: definitivamente
• Georgian: უეჭველად (ueč̣velad), ნამდვილად (namdvilad)
• German: definitiv (de), bestimmt (de), sicher (de)
• Hebrew: בהחלט
• Hungarian: biztosan (hu), feltétlenül (hu), kétségkívül (hu), kétségtelenül (hu), okvetlenül (hu), bizonyosan (hu), minden bizonnyal
• Icelandic: eflaust n
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• Italian: indubbiamente (it), non ci piove
• Japanese: 確かに (たしかに, tashika ni), きっと (ja) (kitto), 必ず (ja) (かならず, kanarazu)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: noteikti
• Macedonian: дефинитивно (definitivno), несомнено (nesomneno)
• Malay: pasti
• Norwegian: definitivt, utvilsomt n
• Persian: حتماً (fa) (hatman)
• Polish: na pewno (pl), zdecydowanie (pl)
• Portuguese: definitivamente (pt)
• Russian: определённо (ru) (opredeljónno), несомне́нно (ru) (nesomnénno), наверняка́ (ru) (navernjaká)
• Slovene: definitivno, zagotovo, nedvomno
• Spanish: definitivamente (es), indudablemente (es)
• Swedish: definitivt (sv)
• Turkish: kesinlikle (tr)

in a definite manner

• Catalan: decididament (ca)
• Finnish: päättäväisesti (fi)
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• French: décidément (fr), (dated) assurément (fr)
• Hungarian: határozottan (hu)

An emphatic affirmative answer; of course

• Hungarian: hogyne (hu), persze (hu), természetesen (hu)
• Italian: non ci piove
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• Maori: āpāia

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Georgian: ^{(please verify)} გარკვევით (garḳvevit)
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See also

• definitively
• absolutely