Definition of Definitive

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Definitive

Determinate; positive; final; conclusive; unconditional; express.

Limiting; determining; as, a definitive word.

Determined; resolved.

A word used to define or limit the extent of the signification of a common noun, such as the definite article, and some pronouns.

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Definitive Quotations

The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
Douglas Adams

Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act.
Max Weber

It sort of filtered into their subconscious through motion pictures, but it's an historical secret. This - whatever this is - needs to be studied and, in a kind of definitive way, talked about.
Dwight Schultz

If you were looking at where you would like your career to go, then you would have to cherry pick The Stones. People love coming to see them. They are it, they are the most definitive rock n roll band ever.
Andy Taylor

I don't know that I can give a definitive answer to that, I can only say that if we create the right climate those who are producing those products will have the opportunity to move into a higher value product if changes are needed if we get this right.
John Anderson

This planet seems to be in such sorry shape. And I can't ever think about the rest of the universe without coming back home and thinking what the implications for life here would be if we were to really have some definitive proof of extraterrestrial life.
Ann Druyan

After an extensive investigation, the office produced a report that addressed the many questions that confronted the difficult issues, it laid out new evidence, and it reached a definitive conclusion.
Kenneth Starr

And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That's why I love it so much.
Fay Godwin

We've got a daunting enough task to provide a definitive account of what happened in 9/11, without fear or favor, something that will last and will survive criticism over time. And we think we can do that with integrity in a bipartisan report.
Richard Ben-Veniste

In 1969, at the age of 19, I was lucky enough to work with George C. Scott in the definitive portrayal of his career over a period of many months and several countries on the definitive film version of Patton's WWII career.
Edward Albert

Definitive Translations

definitive in Dutch is onherroepelijk, definitief
definitive in Norwegian is endelig, definitiv
definitive in Spanish is definitivo
definitive in Swedish is slutgiltig

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