Word Meanings - FINATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Conclusive; decisive; definitive; final. Greene .
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- CONCLUSIVELY
In the way of conclusion; decisively; positively. Burke. - CONCLUSIVENESS
The quality of being conclusive; decisiveness. - DEFINITIVE
1. Determinate; positive; final; conclusive; unconditional; express. A strict and definitive truth. Sir T. Browne. Some definitive . . . scheme of reconciliation. Prescott. 2. Limiting; determining; as, a definitive word. 3. Determined; resolved. - DECISIVE
1. Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive. "A decisive, irrevocable doom." Bates. "Decisive campaign." Macaulay. "Decisive proof." Hallam. 2. Marked - DEFINITIVELY
In a definitive manner. - FINAL
1. Pertaining to the end or conclusion; last; terminating; ultimate; as, the final day of a school term. Yet despair not of his final pardon. Milton. 2. Conclusive; decisive; as, a final judgment; the battle of Waterloo brought the contest to a - GREENERY
Green plants; verdure. A pretty little one-storied abode, so rural, so smothered in greenery. J. Ingelow. - CONCLUSIVE
Belonging to a close or termination; decisive; convincing; putting an end to debate or question; leading to, or involving, a conclusion or decision. Secret reasons . . . equally conclusive for us as they were for them. Rogers. Conclusive evidence - FINALIST
Any of the players who meet in the final round of a tournament in which the losers in any round do not play again. - DEFINITIVENESS
The quality of being definitive. - FINALE
Close; termination; as: The last movement of a symphony, sonata, concerto, or any instrumental composition. The last composition performed in any act of an opera. The closing part, piece, or scene in any public performance or exhibition. - FINALLY
1. At the end or conclusion; ultimately; lastly; as, the contest was long, but the Romans finally conquered. Whom patience finally must crown. Milton. 2. Completely; beyond recovery. Not any house of noble English in Ireland was utterly destroyed - FINALITY
1. The state of being final, finished, or complete; a final or conclusive arrangement; a settlement. Baxter. 2. The relation of end or purpose to its means. Janet. - SHAGREEN; SHAGREENED
Covered with rough scales or points like those on shagreen. (more info) 1. Made or covered with the leather called shagreen. "A shagreen case of lancets." T. Hook. - UNCONCLUSIVE
Inconclusive. - INDECISIVENESS
The state of being indecisive; unsettled state. - INCONCLUSIVE
Not conclusive; leading to no conclusion; not closing or settling a point in debate, or a doubtful question; as, evidence is inconclusive when it does not exhibit the truth of a disputed case in such a manner as to satisfy the mind, and put an end - INDECISIVE
1. Not decisive; not bringing to a final or ultimate issue; as, an indecisive battle, argument, answer. The campaign had everywhere been indecisive. Macaulay. 2. Undetermined; prone to indecision; irresolute; unsettled; wavering; vacillating; - INDECISIVELY
Without decision. - UNDECISIVE
Indecisive. Glanvill. - AFFINAL
Related by marriage; from the same source.