Usually means: Clearly established, precise, and certain.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word definite:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. definite: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. definite: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. definite: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. definite: Collins English Dictionary
  5. definite: Vocabulary.com
  6. Definite, definite: Wordnik
  7. definite: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. definite: Wiktionary
  9. definite: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. definite: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. definite: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Definite, definite: Dictionary.com
  13. definite: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Definite: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Definite: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. definite: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. definite: Rhymezone
  18. definite: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. definite: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. definite: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. definite: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. definite: Free Dictionary

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. definite: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. definite: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Having distinct limits.
▸ adjective:  Free from any doubt.
▸ adjective:  Determined; resolved; decided.
▸ adjective:  (linguistics) Designating an identified or immediately identifiable person or thing, or group of persons or things
▸ noun:  (grammar) A word or phrase that designates a specified or identified person or entity.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Anything that is defined or determined.

Similar:
defined, distinct, decisive, decided, certain, settled, formed, definitive, discernible, slight, more...

Opposite:
uncertain, indefinite, ambiguous, unclear, vague

Types:
noun phrases, pronouns, determiners, cardinal numbers, ordinal numbers, more...

Phrases:
definite article, positive definite, definite form, definite descriptions, definite number, more...

Adjectives:
positive, more, present, past, preterite, preterit, plural, semi, uniform, complaint, decisive



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Similar:
defined, distinct, decisive, decided, certain, settled, formed, definitive, discernible, slight, more...

Opposite:
uncertain, indefinite, ambiguous, unclear, vague

Types:
noun phrases, pronouns, determiners, cardinal numbers, ordinal numbers, more...

Phrases:
definite article, positive definite, definite form, definite descriptions, definite number, Definite description, definite integral, definite quantity, definite articles, negative definite, definite integrals, more...

Adjectives:
positive, more, present, past, preterite, preterit, plural, semi, uniform, complaint, decisive



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