Sample Sentences for
definitive
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    Sometimes seeing testimony in black and white makes it more definitive to the jurors.  (source)
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    Theoretically, there may never be a definitive answer to that question.  (source)
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    Given Russia's long, heartless winters, its familiarity with famine, its rough sense of justice, and so on, and so on, it was perfectly natural for its gentry to adopt an act of definitive violence as the means of resolving disputes.  (source)
    definitive = final
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    And trust me. It's definitive.  (source)
    definitive = beyond doubt
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    Parzival: So you're telling me, definitively, that you are a female?  (source)
    definitively = with certainty
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    At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitively settled—but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved, precluded the idea of risk.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    'The Eleventh Edition is the definitive edition,' he said.  (source)
    definitive = best possible
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    "A dog." she said definitively, "can only answer to one master."  (source)
    definitively = without doubt
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    History has never had a definitive version of the book.  (source)
    definitive = authoritative ("the best possible, real versions")
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    At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitively settled—  (source)
    definitively = settled in a manner that is definite and final
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    Should know something definitive later today.†  (source)
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    "Yes," he was able to tell Nathan definitively.†  (source)
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    Without definitive solutions, it's easy to throw blame.†  (source)
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