Infinitive complement

• enable: Their agreement was sufficiently definite to enable the surveyors and, pace the courts below, this court, to give it practical meaning.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• have: But I have nothing definite to write the emperor about him.

• hear: We hope to hear something definite on that this week.

• get: I will make inquiry and see if I can get anything definite.

Modifies a noun

• conclusion: These also failed to come to a definite conclusion.

• no-no: We also never had the SENCO writing them; that is a definite no-no in my LEA.

• plus: Screenshots are available for each step of the way, which is a definite plus.

• diagnosis: However, an endoscopy test - with a biopsy of the small bowel lining - is required for a definite diagnosis to be made.

• advantage: Removing of unwanted material from shed blood is a definite advantage.

• article: Do not use the definite article ' the ' .

Modifying Another Word

• sufficiently: Their agreement was sufficiently definite to enable the surveyors and, pace the courts below, this court, to give it practical meaning.

• very: In his own mind he had a very definite theory about the murder.

• quite: It's quite definite that the Russians will attack there.

• fairly: Sophie has always had a fairly definite ideas about who she wanted to be.

• pretty: When asked recently if he might reprise the series Maupin gave a pretty definite no.

• almost: However, 7:84 Theater Company sees all funding cease in August and almost definite closure.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: You seem definite about that, what makes you so sure, out of interest?

• become: This table will be amended as plans become more definite.

• have: We have definite May Ball performances lined up, and are looking to play other gigs around Cambridge as well.

• make: It was capable of being made definite without further agreement.