Modifying Another Word

• absolutely: She will always be remembered for her absolutely definitive version of Fever.

• truly: No biography is ever truly definitive, and future scholarship will no doubt require a different reading of Anne Boleyn's life and death.

• necessarily: The consensus was that the principles set out were by and large relevant and characteristic of CAM disciplines although not necessarily definitive.

• pretty: I think it's a pretty definitive Churchill really ' .

• not: The figures that I'm going to mention now are not definitive figures; we won't have those for several weeks.

• too: The Warren Commission presented the conclusions in its report in a fashion that was too definitive.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• have: There was something that might be an example, but I have nothing definitive.

Modifies a noun

• guide: The definitive guide to Scotland's second national drink.

• answer: There's no definitive answers about taking too much folic acid.

• biography: The definitive biography of Alexander the Great, pieced together afresh from original sources.

• notation: A definitive notation to specify synchronization of events 13.

• diagnosis: Thus, histologic analysis is often required for a definitive diagnosis.

• conclusion: One year on is far too early to reach any definitive conclusions about the overall success or failure of the Lisbon process.

Used with adjective complement

• regard: For this reason, no list of this type should be regarded as definitive.

• consider: N.B. This job description should not be considered definitive.

• become: For their seizure of Roman Apostolic power was to become definitive - unto this day.

• mean: They are intended only as a broad guideline and are by no means definitive.

• take: These boundaries are approximate only, and should not be taken as definitive.

• offer: She certainly appears to be sharing the question without offering definitive, and therefore most probably misleading, answers.