Word Meanings - FINATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Conclusive; decisive; definitive; final. Greene .

Related words: (words related to FINATIVE)

• CONCLUSIVELY
  In the way of conclusion; decisively; positively. Burke.
• CONCLUSIVENESS
  The quality of being conclusive; decisiveness.
• DEFINITIVE
  1. Determinate; positive; final; conclusive; unconditional; express. A strict and definitive truth. Sir T. Browne. Some definitive . . . scheme of reconciliation. Prescott. 2. Limiting; determining; as, a definitive word. 3. Determined; resolved.
• DECISIVE
  1. Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive. "A decisive, irrevocable doom." Bates. "Decisive campaign." Macaulay. "Decisive proof." Hallam. 2. Marked
• DEFINITIVELY
  In a definitive manner.
• FINAL
  1. Pertaining to the end or conclusion; last; terminating; ultimate; as, the final day of a school term. Yet despair not of his final pardon. Milton. 2. Conclusive; decisive; as, a final judgment; the battle of Waterloo brought the contest to a
• GREENERY
  Green plants; verdure. A pretty little one-storied abode, so rural, so smothered in greenery. J. Ingelow.
• CONCLUSIVE
  Belonging to a close or termination; decisive; convincing; putting an end to debate or question; leading to, or involving, a conclusion or decision. Secret reasons . . . equally conclusive for us as they were for them. Rogers. Conclusive evidence
• FINALIST
  Any of the players who meet in the final round of a tournament in which the losers in any round do not play again.
• DEFINITIVENESS
  The quality of being definitive.
• FINALE
  Close; termination; as: The last movement of a symphony, sonata, concerto, or any instrumental composition. The last composition performed in any act of an opera. The closing part, piece, or scene in any public performance or exhibition.
• FINALLY
  1. At the end or conclusion; ultimately; lastly; as, the contest was long, but the Romans finally conquered. Whom patience finally must crown. Milton. 2. Completely; beyond recovery. Not any house of noble English in Ireland was utterly destroyed
• FINALITY
  1. The state of being final, finished, or complete; a final or conclusive arrangement; a settlement. Baxter. 2. The relation of end or purpose to its means. Janet.
• SHAGREEN; SHAGREENED
  Covered with rough scales or points like those on shagreen. (more info) 1. Made or covered with the leather called shagreen. "A shagreen case of lancets." T. Hook.
• UNCONCLUSIVE
  Inconclusive.
• INDECISIVENESS
  The state of being indecisive; unsettled state.
• INCONCLUSIVE
  Not conclusive; leading to no conclusion; not closing or settling a point in debate, or a doubtful question; as, evidence is inconclusive when it does not exhibit the truth of a disputed case in such a manner as to satisfy the mind, and put an end
• INDECISIVE
  1. Not decisive; not bringing to a final or ultimate issue; as, an indecisive battle, argument, answer. The campaign had everywhere been indecisive. Macaulay. 2. Undetermined; prone to indecision; irresolute; unsettled; wavering; vacillating;
• INDECISIVELY
  Without decision.
• UNDECISIVE
  Indecisive. Glanvill.
• AFFINAL
  Related by marriage; from the same source.