Lexic.us

Definition of Definitely

1. Adverb. Without question and beyond doubt. "By all odds they should win"

Definition of Definitely

1. adv. In a definite manner; with precision; precisely; determinately.

Definition of Definitely

1. Adverb. Without question and beyond doubt. ¹

2. Adverb. In a definite manner; decisively. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Definitely

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Definitely

Literary usage of Definitely

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

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"The line of the defendant's road was definitely located in June, 1865, and the alternate sections within a limit of twenty miles were withdrawn from sale in ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"he referred more definitely to the association of his followers as met together to ... It is commonly said that the church was definitely founded with the ..."

3. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1912)
"The yal author visited this country as the guest play, "Bunty Pulls the String," has definitely made up his mind to write a novel around it. ..."

4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1904)
"In Cu- pressus 5 3.9 ^ of the species are distinguished by the presence of widely scattering cells which become definitely arranged in FIG. 41. ..."

5. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1887)
"... of Supervisors of IMS Angeles County, through the action of Mr. AB Chapman, to renew his investigation« and settle more definitely the modus operandi. ..."

6. The Popular Science Monthly (1884)
"But it may be well to show more definitely what the true line of duty is in regard to self. I shall, therefore, next consider cases where self-abnegation ..."

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