Definitiveとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /dɪˈfɪn.ɪ.tɪv/
• (米国発音, Canada, General Australian) IPA: /dɪˈfɪn.ə.tɪv/, [dɪˈfɪn.ə.ɾɪv]

形容詞

definitive (comparative more definitive, superlative most definitive)

1. explicitly defined
2. determining finally, conclusive, decisive

   definitive vote

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

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

     A strict and definitive truth.

   • 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:

     Some definitive […] scheme of reconciliation.

4. limiting; determining

   a definitive word

5. (philately) general, not issued for commemorative purposes
6. (obsolete) Determined; resolved.
   • 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:

     Never crave him. We are definitive.

派生語

名詞

definitive (plural definitives)

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

   Synonym: definitive stamp

形容詞

dēfīnītīve

1. vocative masculine singular of dēfīnītīvus

参照

• “definitive”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• definitive in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.