Antonym: tentative. Similar words: definition, definitely, initiative, punitive, cognitive, define, affinity, initial. Meaning: [dɪ'fɪnɪtɪv] adj. 1. clearly defined or formulated 2. of recognized authority or excellence 3. supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement.
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61 Eventually, however, arterial blood gas values will be required to make a definitive acid-base diagnosis.
62 And in his definitive text the novelist voices social unsteadiness as empty groupings and vapid motions.
63 His books may not be the most definitive works on the phenomenon they describe.
64 This fundamental question does not yet have a definitive answer.
65 The matter seemed to lie beyond the pale of any definitive confirmation.
66 This may be the definitive book on the Scarlatti trial.
67 Yet we find it difficult to take these definitive events and state categorically that they are universal truths for women engineers.
68 The opposition were loyally supporting the Government, but were also pressing for a definitive statement.
69 The calorific value of that on an ordinary definitive stamp is 5.9.
70 We finally agreed on an experiment we would both regard as definitive.
71 Definitive evidence of discrimination, however, may be obtained only from a prospective study.
72 The search for the definitive monograph on Piero, if such a book can ever be written,[http://sentencedict.com/definitive.html] will continue.
73 Griffin is the author of the definitive travel guide 'France at Your Fingertips'.
74 In summary, the research to date provides few definitive guidelines for the clinician.
75 None can provide a definitive answer to the question of whom resources should be spent on.
76 The most radical and definitive solution would be for all Third World debtor countries to collectively renounce their debts.
77 Still, while it may not be definitive, it certainly is delightfully dishy.
78 The Black Book Of Communism is not a definitive work.
79 However, the design can be a useful, if not a definitive,(sentencedict.com) indicator of a rug's origins.
80 The nomenclature of science does not refer to definitive concepts: It is ceaselessly adjusted, completed, varied.
81 Now a definitive agreement has been signed, with each founding partner taking an equal stake in the new venture.
82 The Fundamental Principle, proclaimed in capital letters with definite reference implying definitive solution.
83 Temporal artery biopsy is considered the definitive test in establishing the diagnosis.
84 He added that many market watchers had been hoping for some type of agreement or definitive news yesterday.
85 But the results so far are mixed, although many state transportation officials say it is too early to make definitive judgments.
86 By virtue of the concept of parliamentary sovereignty, the act would be definitive.
87 Definitive music from his golden years and top-class traditional jazz by any standards.
88 He has refused, arguing that a definitive legal answer would split the country irrevocably.
89 To ask for definitive answers to such grandiose questions would, of course, be a tall order.
90 Cat is the appropriate experimental definitive host.
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