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Gene93 Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary
definitive/definite answer
Hello,
What in your opinion is the difference between them when used in collocation with "answer"?
- Are you coming to the concert with us? I need a definite/definitive answer.
I would use definite here. "A definite answer" suggests to me that the person is certain about something. Definitive means "complete" to me.
A definitive diagnosis, guide, etc.
What do you think? Thank you.
What in your opinion is the difference between them when used in collocation with "answer"?
- Are you coming to the concert with us? I need a definite/definitive answer.
I would use definite here. "A definite answer" suggests to me that the person is certain about something. Definitive means "complete" to me.
A definitive diagnosis, guide, etc.
What do you think? Thank you.
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Gene93 I would use definite here. "A definite answer" suggests to me that the person is certain about something. Definitive means "complete" to me.
- Gene93 I would use definite here.
- "A definite answer" suggests to me that the person is certain about something.
- Definitive means "complete" to me.
- What do you think?
- I agree.
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Gene93I would use definite here. "A definite answer" suggests to me that the person is certain about something. Definitive means "complete" to me. ... What do you think?I agree. "definitive" is also something like "best", "good enough to be used as the standard against which all other answers might be judged".
CJ
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Thank you, Jim. What would: There are no definitive solutions to this problem" and "The court has issued a definitive ruling" mean to you? A definitive ruling would be a final ruling, I guess. No definitive solutions. Hmm...Cambridge Dictionary defines definitive as "not able to be changed or improved". The last sentence is "The police have no definitive evidence of her guilt". Hmm...
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Gene931. There are no definitive solutions to this problem. 2. The court has issued a definitive ruling. 3. The police have no definitive evidence of her guilt.All three use "definitive" as defined in the Cambridge dictionary. There may still be better solutions or better evidence in the case of 1 and 3. (They can be improved, which implies change.) There
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