conclusive

Modifying Another Word

• fairly: In any event, Matthew is the first gospel for which we have fairly conclusive external evidence.
• pretty: His very bones are pretty conclusive evidence that he died there!
• absolutely: KNOW is too strong a word to use when the evidence is not final and absolutely conclusive.
• necessarily: Neither were the duration of the agency nor the agent's performance necessarily conclusive.
• entirely: As you can see the evidence was not entirely conclusive but the trail certainly went " right to the top " .
• yet: Vitamin E and selenium supplements may prevent prostate cancer, although the evidence is not yet conclusive.

Preposition: for

purpose: The fact that a payment is made under contractual arrangements is not of itself conclusive for taxation purposes in this context.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

find: Yet at more than 110 sites checked so far they have found nothing conclusive.

Modifies a noun

• answerwe: Effect of prwora the sample in conclusive answerwe thank private care.
• proof: There is no conclusive proof to support either view.
• evidence: The minute book will be conclusive evidence of the result of the vote.
• victory: This was then followed by a conclusive victory over the Navy, giving the RAF the weapon victory.
• answer: Yet there is still no conclusive answer to the question of why someone is left-handed.
• diagnosis: These capabilities give doctors the tools to make much more conclusive diagnoses without subjecting the patient to extensive procedures.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: It now seems fairly conclusive that the advent of iTunes 4.9 has had an impact!
• prove: I doubt if the evidence will prove conclusive in all respects, but perhaps beyond reasonable doubt?
• regard: So the evidence at this point cannot be regarded as conclusive.
• mean: They were all five arrested, but the evidence against them was by no means conclusive.
• consider: The others may sway you in one direction or another but none can be considered conclusive.
• take: However, pharmacological experiments can never be taken as conclusive.