definitively

English

Etymology

From definitive +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈfɪnɪtɪvli/

• Audio:

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Adverb

definitively (comparative more definitively, superlative most definitively)

1. In a way that is not only decisive, but also conclusive and final.
   • 2024 August 29, Ashley Rindsberg, “How Wikipedia Launders Regime Propaganda”, in Pirate Wires‎^[1], archived from the original on 29 August 2024:

     Far from making the kind of statement of hard fact that editors had readily made regarding claims about Trump’s racism, the article fails to definitively state that the laptop is not, in fact, Russian disinformation.

Translations

in a decisive, conclusive and final manner

• Bulgarian: определено (bg) (opredeleno)
• Catalan: definitivament (ca)
• Esperanto: definitive
• Finnish: lopullisesti (fi)
• French: définitivement (fr)
• Hungarian: végleg (hu)
• Italian: decisamente (it), definitivamente (it)
• Polish: ostatecznie (pl), definitywnie (pl), zdecydowanie (pl), niezaprzeczalnie (pl)
• Portuguese: definitivamente (pt)
• Russian: определённо (ru) (opredeljónno), окончательно (ru) (okončatelʹno)
• Spanish: definitivamente (es)
• Swedish: definitivt (sv)

See also

• definitely