DEFINITELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does definitely mean? 

• DEFINITELY (adverb)
  The adverb DEFINITELY has 1 sense:

1. without question and beyond doubt

  Familiarity information: DEFINITELY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEFINITELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without question and beyond doubt

Synonyms:

by all odds; decidedly; definitely; emphatically; in spades; unquestionably

Context example:

by all odds they should win

 Context examples 

They definitely prefer certain signs over others.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The fact that Jupiter has such a massive region rotating in separate east-west bands is definitely a surprise.

(Jupiter’s Jet-Streams Are Unearthly, NASA)

"It definitely warrants further study. Additional lines of evidence should be pursued to test the interpretation."

(Possible Subsurface Lake near Martian South Pole, NASA)

Having a family member with a disease raises your risk, but it does not mean that you will definitely get it.

(Family History, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

After a general discussion it was determined that for to-night nothing be definitely settled; that we should all sleep on the facts, and try to think out the proper conclusions.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Yet indirectly she let him understand it as clearly and definitely as she could have spoken it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

This, of course, if we could definitely prove it, would turn Lestrade’s argument against himself, for who would steal a thing if he knew that he would shortly inherit it?

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

Northern Europe including France, Germany, Austria and Switzerland are definitely on the safe side.

(Scientists Track Chinese Space Station as It Falls to Earth, VOA)

No abnormal phenotype has been definitely identified with autosomal fragile sites, but some rare autosomal recessive disorders may be due to homozygosity for fragile sites.

(Chromosome Fragile Site, NCI Thesaurus)

"I think working with the Eastern Shoshone's definitely a possibility. There's no sense in having two private herds," said Devin Oldman, who helped manage the delivery of the buffalo.

(Northern Arapaho Tribe welcomes buffalo herd in Wyoming, United States, Wikinews)