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I have only a tentative answer, but I will be definitive next week.definitive = final
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It is the definitive book on selecting a college.definitive = best possible
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No definitive proof has been offered.definitive = definite (beyond question)
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Theoretically, there may never be a definitive answer to that question. (source)
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Sometimes seeing testimony in black and white makes it more definitive to the jurors. (source)
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For while house arrest is a definitive infringement upon one's liberty, presumably it is also intended to be something of a humiliation. (source)definitive = certain
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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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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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And trust me. It's definitive. (source)definitive = beyond doubt
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"A dog." she said definitively, "can only answer to one master." (source)definitively = without doubt
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We were producing a definitive edition of the poems of Kipling. (source)definitive = best and most respected
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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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He didn't know what else to say; it was so definitive.† (source)
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I've asked my brothers, aunts, uncles and cousins, but I have not been able to definitively establish a timeline, and have therefore relied on my own memories.† (source)
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The figures above, compiled by Charles Stenger, PhD, in a comprehensive study of POW statistics for the Veterans Administration, appear to be definitive.† (source)
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