Etymology
definite + -ly
Pronunciation
Adverb
definitely (comparative more definitely, superlative most definitely)
- Without question and beyond doubt.
- The mother definitely has love for her child.
- In a definite manner; decisively.
- Nikolai Gogol, The Nose (in translation)
- And the Nose definitely turned away.
Translations
without question and beyond doubt
- Arabic: بالتأكيد (ar) (bi-l-ta'kiid)
- Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 肯定 (cmn) (kěndìng), 定然 (cmn) (dìngrán)
- Czech: rozhodně (cs), určitě (cs)
- Dutch: zeker (nl), zeker weten (nl), zonder twijfel (nl)
- Finnish: ehdottomasti (fi), varmasti (fi)
- French: décidément (fr), certainement (fr), sans conteste (fr), assurément (fr)
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: definitiv (de), bestimmt (de), sicher (de)
- Hebrew: בהחלט (he)
- Hungarian: biztosan (hu), feltétlenül (hu), határozottan (hu)
- Icelandic: eflaust (is) n
- Italian: indubbiamente (it)
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- Japanese: 確かに (ja) (たしかに, tashika-ni), きっと (ja) (kitto), 必ず (ja) (かならず, kanarazu)
- Korean: please add this translation if you can
- Latvian: noteikti (lv)
- Malay: pasti (ms)
- Norwegian: definitivt (no), utvilsomt (no) n
- Persian: حتماً (fa) (hatman)
- Polish: na pewno (pl), zdecydowanie (pl)
- Portuguese: definitivamente (pt)
- Russian: определённо (ru) (opredeljónno), несомненно (ru) (nesomnénno), наверняка (ru) (navernjaká)
- Slovene: definitivno (sl), zagotovo (sl), nedvomno (sl)
- Spanish: definitivamente (es), indudablemente (es) n
- Swedish: definitivt (sv)
- Turkish: please add this translation if you can
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