definitive
See also: définitive
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French définitif.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈfɪn.ɪ.tɪv/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (US, Canada, General Australian) IPA(key): /dɪˈfɪn.ə.tɪv/, [dɪˈfɪn.ə.ɾɪv]
- (Indic) IPA(key): /ˈɖɛfɪnɪʈɪv/, /ɖɪfɪˈnɪʈɪv/
Adjective
[edit]definitive (comparative more definitive, superlative most definitive)
- explicitly defined
- determining finally, conclusive, 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[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- A strict and definitive truth.
- 1838, William H[ickling] 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[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], line 424:
- Never crave him. We are definitive.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]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
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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
[edit]philately: ordinary postage stamp
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Esperanto
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From definitiva + -e.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]definitive
German
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]definitive
- inflection of definitiv:
Italian
[edit]Adjective
[edit]definitive f pl
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [deː.fiː.niːˈtiː.wɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [de.fi.niˈtiː.ve]
Adjective
[edit]dēfīnītīve
References
[edit]- “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.
Swedish
[edit]Adjective
[edit]definitive
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