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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈdɛfɪnɪt/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈdɛfɪnɪt/, /ˈdɛfənɪt/, /ˈdɛfənət/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈdefɪnɪt/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈdefənət/

形容詞

definite (comparative more definite, superlative most definite)

1. Having distinct limits.

   definite dimensions; a definite measure; a definite period or interval

   • 1837, William Whewell, chapter 8, in History of the Inductive Sciences‎, volume 3, book 14, London: John W. Parker, page 145:

     […] elements combine in definite proportions […]

2. Free from any doubt.

   Synonym: unquestionable

   definite knowledge

3. Determined; resolved; decided.
   • 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene vi]:

     […] idiots in this case of favour would
     Be wisely definite

4. (linguistics) Designating an identified or immediately identifiable person or thing, or group of persons or things

   the definite article

反意語

• indefinite

派生語

関連する語

• define
• definitive
• indefinite

名詞

definite (plural definites)

1. (grammar) A word or phrase that designates a specified or identified person or entity.
2. (obsolete) Anything that is defined or determined.

副詞

dēfīnītē (comparative dēfīnītius, superlative dēfīnītissimē)

1. precisely, distinctly, clearly, explicitly

参照

• “definite”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers