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DEFINITELY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Without question and beyond doubt
Example:
by all odds they should win
Synonyms:
by all odds; decidedly; definitely; emphatically; in spades; unquestionably
Classified under:
Context examples:
Having no doubts; definitely true.
(Certain, NCI Thesaurus)
Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself for over twenty years proof against the little god’s arrows, has now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Pray consider yourself definitely engaged.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was from Norwood, and ran as follows: Important fresh evidence to hand. McFarlane’s guilt definitely established. Advise you to abandon case. — LESTRADE.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And now his unrest had become sharp and painful, and he knew at last, clearly and definitely, that it was beauty, and intellect, and love that he must have.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I am definitely coming along to watch Otis see Santa this year now that he is three-and-a-half—our appointment is for December 8.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
On the one hand, I was definitely engaged and had a hundred pounds in my pocket; on the other, the look of the offices, the absence of name on the wall, and other of the points which would strike a business man had left a bad impression as to the position of my employers.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
So long as he was in actual professional practice the records of his successes were of some practical value to him, but since he has definitely retired from London and betaken himself to study and bee-farming on the Sussex Downs, notoriety has become hateful to him, and he has peremptorily requested that his wishes in this matter should be strictly observed.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Her frightened eyes told that whatever intentions, whatever courage she had had, were definitely gone.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
