definitely

English

Etymology

From definite +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈdɛf.ɪ.nɪt.li/, /ˈdɛf.ə.nɪt.li/, /ˈdɛf.nɪt.li/
Audio (US): (file)

Adverb

definitely (comparative more definitely, superlative most definitely)

Without question and beyond doubt.
Joe definitely doesn't know how to drive a tractor.

She said she wasn't coming, definitely.
In a definite manner; decisively.
- 1912, Joseph Conrad, “Chapter IV”, in A Personal Record:
  It was really impossible on board that ship to get away definitely from Almayer
- 1916, Nikolai Gogol, translated by Claud Field, The Nose, published 1836:
  And the Nose definitely turned away.
- 2003, Herbert Mitgang, Once Upon a Time in New York, page 187:
  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, […]

Synonyms

positively

Translations

without question and beyond doubt

Arabic: بِالتَّأْكِيد (bi-t-taʔkīd)
Belarusian: пэ́ўна (péŭna), напэ́ўна (napéŭna)
Bulgarian: със сигурност (sǎs sigurnost)
Catalan: definitivament (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 肯定 (zh) (kěndìng), 定然 (zh) (dìngrán)
Czech: rozhodně (cs), určitě (cs)
Dutch: zeker (nl), zeker weten, zonder twijfel
Esperanto: nepre (eo), certe (eo)
Finnish: ehdottomasti (fi), varmasti (fi)
French: décidément (fr), certainement (fr), sans conteste (fr), assurément (fr)
Galician: definitivamente
Georgian: უეჭველად (ueč̣velad), ნამდვილად (namdvilad)
German: definitiv (de), bestimmt (de), sicher (de)
Hebrew: בהחלט
Hungarian: biztosan (hu), feltétlenül (hu), kétségkívül (hu), kétségtelenül (hu), okvetlenül (hu), bizonyosan (hu), minden bizonnyal (hu)
Icelandic: örugglega
Italian: indubbiamente (it), non ci piove
Japanese: 確かに (たしかに, tashika ni), きっと (ja) (kitto), 必ず (ja) (かならず, kanarazu)
Korean: 명확히 (ko) (myeonghwakhi), 반드시 (ko) (bandeusi), 확실히 (ko) (hwaksilhi)
Latvian: noteikti (lv)
Macedonian: определено (opredeleno), несомнено (nesomneno), дефинитивно (definitivno)
Malay: pasti (ms)
Norwegian: definitivt, utvilsomt n
Persian: حتماً (fa) (hatman)
Polish: na pewno (pl), zdecydowanie (pl)
Portuguese: definitivamente (pt)
Russian: определённо (ru) (opredeljónno), несомне́нно (ru) (nesomnénno), наверняка́ (ru) (navernjaká)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: дефинитивно

Roman: definitivno (sh)
Slovene: definitivno, zagotovo, nedvomno
Spanish: definitivamente (es), indudablemente (es)
Swedish: definitivt (sv)
Turkish: kesinlikle (tr)
Ukrainian: напе́вно (napévno)

in a definite manner

Catalan: decididament (ca)
Finnish: päättäväisesti (fi)
French: décidément (fr), (dated) assurément (fr)
Hungarian: határozottan (hu)
Italian: decisamente (it)

An emphatic affirmative answer; of course

Hungarian: hogyne (hu), persze (hu), természetesen (hu)
Italian: non ci piove, certamente (it)
Maori: āpāia

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Translations to be checked

Georgian: ^{(please verify)} გარკვევით (garḳvevit)