CONCLUSIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conclusive mean? 

• CONCLUSIVE (adjective)
  The adjective CONCLUSIVE has 1 sense:

1. forming an end or termination; especially putting an end to doubt or question

  Familiarity information: CONCLUSIVE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONCLUSIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Forming an end or termination; especially putting an end to doubt or question

Context example:

the evidence is conclusive

Similar:

definitive; determinate (supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement)

Also:

decisive (determining or having the power to determine an outcome)

Attribute:

conclusiveness; decisiveness; finality (the quality of being final or definitely settled)

Antonym:

inconclusive (not conclusive; not putting an end to doubt or question)

Derivation:

conclude (decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion)

conclude (reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation)

conclusiveness (the quality of being final or definitely settled)

 Context examples 

The conference was neither so short nor so conclusive as the lady had designed.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The study marks the most recent research published linking head trauma sustained while playing football to chronic brain injuries, though it is by no means conclusive.

(Study: Brain Disease Found in Nearly All Deceased US Football Players, VOA News)

Conclusive in a process or progression.

(Final, NCI Thesaurus)

Each is suggestive, and together they are almost conclusive.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It did not seem to me conclusive.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But surely your evidence is conclusive.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The point about the signature is very suggestive—in fact, we may call it conclusive.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement or result.

(Definitive, NCI Thesaurus)

They were all five arrested, but the evidence against them was by no means conclusive.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I lingered but a moment at the mirror: the second and conclusive experiment had yet to be attempted; it yet remained to be seen if I had lost my identity beyond redemption and must flee before daylight from a house that was no longer mine; and hurrying back to my cabinet, I once more prepared and drank the cup, once more suffered the pangs of dissolution, and came to myself once more with the character, the stature and the face of Henry Jekyll.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)