英语释义

1. serving to provide a final solution or to end a situation
a definitive victory could not give a definitive diagnosis

2. authoritative and apparently exhaustive
a definitive critical biography

3. serving to define or specify precisely
established definitive guidelines for sentencing criminals

4. serving as a perfect example quintessential
a definitive bourgeois A slow race is the definitive Leechfield competition. You win it by coming in last.
— Mary Karr

5. fully differentiated or developed
a definitive organ

6. issued as a regular stamp for the country or territory in which it is to be used

7. a postage stamp issued as a regular stamp for the country or territory in which it is to be used a definitive (see definitive entry 1 sense 5) postage stamp — compare provisional

8. not able to be argued about or changed final and settled

9. complete, accurate, and considered to be the best of its kind

片语

determinacy确定性；坚定性

英汉例句

• they have their reflection-into-self on the body of actual factor content, with its intrinsic definitiveness which gives essential ground of their characterization.

  它们在自身规定了的现实事物里或内容里，以它们的自身反映作为它们本质性的规定的根据。

• however, there have been few outcomes about the positive definitiveness of covariance matrix, most of which have been restricted to the covariance-matrix of continuous sample.

  然而，目前国内外有关协方差矩阵正定性的研究结果并不多，并且大多是集中在连续型样本协方差矩阵方面。

相似词

authoritative有权威的；命令式的；当局的

classic名着；经典着作；大艺术家

classical古典音乐

magisterial有权威的；专横的；官吏的