definitely

Without question and beyond doubt.

Adverb

  1. Without question and beyond doubt.
    • Joe definitely doesn't know how to drive a tractor.
    • She said she wasn't coming, definitely.
  2. In a definite manner; decisively.
    • It was really impossible on board that ship to get away definitely from Almayer - 1912, Joseph Conrad, “Chapter IV”, in A Personal Record:
    • And the Nose definitely turned away. - 1916, Nikolai Gogol, translated by Claud Field, The Nose, published 1836:
    • And these Elders were men of good standing in that community, and they swore definitely before the counsel that this lady committed this impropriety, and there was nobody to gainsay that, except the lady herself, […] -...

Origin

Etymology tree English definite English ly English definitely From definite + ly.

Forms

more definitely most definitely

Synonyms

by all means positively

Related

definitively absolutely