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What is the adjective for definite?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs define and definitize which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

definitive
  1. explicitly defined
  2. conclusive or decisive
  3. definite, authoritative and complete
  4. limiting; determining
  5. (philately) general, not issued for commemorative purposes
  6. (obsolete) Determined; resolved.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “This book, therefore, is the definitive guide to HTML and XHTML.”
      “The Guggenheim Museum remains the definitive example of the modern architectural imagination.”
      “All of the informants are clear and definitive in saying that nonviolence means taking action.”
definite
  1. Having distinct limits.
  2. Free from any doubt.
  3. Determined; resolved.
  4. (linguistics) Designating an identified or immediately identifiable person or thing, or group of persons or things
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “I have had the rare opportunity of seeing definite proof of this fact.”
      “We have discussed this matter with you in your office, but so far you have not given us a definite reply.”
      “The location of the site was marked by clear and definite boundaries.”
defined
  1. Having a definition or value.
  2. (bodybuilding) Having extreme muscle separation as a result of low body fat.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The distinctly defined strategy undoubtedly helped to boost the numbers of party supporters.”
      “Follow the clearly defined trail to the lake.”
      “There are strictly defined guidelines on the range of engagements that are permitted within the organization.”
definitionless
  1. Without a definition.
  2. Lacking definition; blurry or vague.
definitional
  1. Of or relating to a definition.
  2. Used to define something.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Welling provides an overview of the key debates in the contemporary field but becomes mired in a definitional quagmire.”
      “In my terminology otherness or alterity is definitional, and specifically polar.”
      “And its report is steeped in good sense. For a start, it avoids definitional traps.”
definitory
  1. Serving to define; acting as a definition.
  2. Examples:
    1. “As compared with definitory rules, strategic rules of reasoning have received relatively scant attention from logicians and philosophers.”
      “Rules governing correctness are called definitory rules, while those governing efficiency are sometimes called strategic rules.”
      “Just to give an idea of the complexity of the definitory issue we can compare a French and a British definition.”
definable
  1. Able to be defined.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “We don't need a directive or a definable god to feel the presence of divinity.”
      “It's not a definable mental or physical illness, with causes that can be diagnosed and treated.”
      “Disjunction, implication and the existential quantifier are definable making free use of double negation.”
defining
definitized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of definitize
definitizing
  1. present participle of definitize
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