英语词汇“definitive”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	definitive
释义	de·fin·i·tive I. \də̇ˈfinəd.]iv, dēˈ-, -ət]\ adjective Etymology: Middle English diffinityf, from Middle French diffinitif, definitif, from Latin definitivus, from definitus + -ivus -ive 1. : serving to supply a final answer, solution, or evaluation and to end an unsettled unresolved condition < a definitive victory > < definitive surgical treatment > 2. archaic : fixed and unalterable in opinion or judgment 3. : most authoritative, reliable, and complete usually with the implication of final and perfected completeness or precision — used of research, scholarship, or criticism especially of a biographical or historical study or of a text or edition of a literary work or author < definitive studies > < it is the definitive book on the ghost or near-ghost towns of the Old West — Vardis Fisher > < definitive complete works > < the definitive review of this book has already been written — T.P.Thornton > 4. : serving to define or specify precisely < definitive laws > : distinguishing < the term communist, orig. merely definitive, has become loosely condemnatory > < species names are often definitive of the species > 5. : exact, express, and clearly defined; broadly : real, actual, and positive : definite < the fears and definitive disappointments of the period — Edmund Wilson > < a settled and definitive world order — Aldous Huxley > 6. biology : complete : fully developed : final < a definitive organ > — opposed to immature, primitive 7. of a postage stamp : issued as a regular stamp for the country or territory in which it is to be used — contrasted with provisional Synonyms: see conclusive II. noun (-s) 1. archaic : a final judgment or sentence 2. : a definitive postage stamp
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