definitive

comparative more definitive · superlative most definitive

1. Explicitly defined.
2. Determining finally, conclusive, decisive.

   definitive vote

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   She will have the definitive say in the matter, after consulting her board of directors.

3. Definite, authoritative and complete.

   A strict and definitive truth.

   1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

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   Some definitive […] scheme of reconciliation.

   1838, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: American Stationers’ Company; John B. Russell, →OCLC

4. Limiting; determining.

   a definitive word

5. hobbiesGeneral, not issued for commemorative purposes.
6. obsoleteDetermined; resolved.

   Never crave him. We are definitive.

   c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], line 424

plural definitives

1. grammara word, such as a definite article or demonstrative pronoun, that defines or limits something
2. hobbiesan ordinary postage stamp that is part of a series of all denominations or is reprinted as needed to meet demand

   Synonyms: definitive stamp