Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a definite manner.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a definite manner; with precision; precisely; determinately.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb Without question and beyond doubt.
  • adverb In a definite manner; decisively.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb without question and beyond doubt

Etymologies

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definite +‎ -ly

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  • A word with its own web page, indeed its own domain. There's one peeved pedant out there somewhere.

    June 17, 2008

  • So someone is paying 30 $ a year for a page like that? Definately crazy.

    June 17, 2008

  • Maybe sales of the mug make it self-sustaining. Their shop is a bit better stocked than the Wordie merch shop, so presumably somebody's buying.

    June 17, 2008

  • Stein? Teddy bear? Classic thong? Definetly.

    June 18, 2008

  • Classic...?

    Oh, never mind.

    June 18, 2008

  • I would definantly buy from that shop, jus perhaps not the "classic thong".

    June 18, 2008

  • That's totally worth $30 a year.

    June 19, 2008

  • misspelled as "definately" (-- think "DEFINITE" plus "-ly")

    November 19, 2008