Definition of Authoritative

1. Adjective. Having authority or ascendancy or influence. "The captain's authoritative manner"

Exact synonyms: Important
Similar to: Influential
Derivative terms: Importance

2. Adjective. Of recognized authority or excellence. "Classical methods of navigation"
Exact synonyms: Classic, Classical, Definitive
Similar to: Standard

3. Adjective. Sanctioned by established authority. "The authorized biography"
Exact synonyms: Authorised, Authorized
Similar to: Official

Definition of Authoritative

1. a. Having, or proceeding from, due authority; entitled to obedience, credit, or acceptance; determinate; commanding.

Definition of Authoritative

1. Adjective. Arising or originating from a figure of authority ¹

2. Adjective. Highly accurate or definitive; treated or worthy of treatment as a scholarly authority ¹

3. Adjective. Having a commanding style. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Authoritative

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Authoritative

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authorised terms
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authoritative (current term)
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authorized shares
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Literary usage of Authoritative

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Source Book for Ancient Church History: From the Apostolic Age to the by Joseph Cullen Ayer (1913)
"THE CANON OR THE authoritative NEW TESTAMENT WRITINGS The Gnostics used ... The list of books regarded as authoritative constituted the Canon of Scripture. ..."

2. War Powers Under the Constitution of the United States by William Whiting (1864)
"authoritative CONSTRUCTION OF THE MEANING OF THE CONSTITUTION. The conclusive authority on its interpretation is the document itself. ..."

3. An Arabic-English Lexicon: Derived from the Best and the Most Copious by Edward William Lane (1885)
"The advantages are a more speedy publication of Mr. Lane's work, the authoritative position attained by restricting Volumes VII. and VIII. entirely to his ..."

4. A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions. by Frederick Marryat (1839)
"I was waiting at the counter of a sort of pastry-cook's, when three negro lads, about twelve or fourteen years old, came in, and, in a most authoritative ..."

5. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"His "Life of Dickens" has an importance beyond its intrinsic merits, because it is the most authoritative book on the great novelist. ..."

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