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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
definitely
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
definitely/certainly recommend
▪ We would definitely recommend these books to students in fourth to sixth grade.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
get
▪ The ghost had definitely got into the machine.
▪ I definitely get the idea they want to send me home in a box.
▪ For a start, she had definitely got the impression that Miss Philimore always did her buying in person.
▪ It had never happened in just this way before, but he was definitely getting the Christmas spirit.
▪ Early spring colour My favourites have definitely got to be those which flower early in January and February.
▪ He still wishes to pursue a medical career, and has been told that he will almost definitely get into medical school.
▪ She has definitely got something to hold over old rival Adam.
▪ I think it's definitely getting stormy.
go
▪ Apart from peg 40 immediately below the Teme it was definitely going to be a feeder job.
▪ We were definitely going for the existential crime-drama thing.
▪ He would definitely go to the pub later, he decided.
▪ But it is definitely going to happen, said Parmenter.
▪ David and Jane's house was definitely gone and they were in their magnificent new barn, cynosure of the Mattole.
▪ If Mr Punsalong hit me with all that emotion, I was definitely going to die and be dead.
▪ A thaw has set in and clerk of the course Ian Renton reports racing will definitely go ahead.
▪ They can definitely go as far as 300 in next three or four months.
look
▪ He looked definitely iffy to me, but not the sort of bad lad who carries out hits.
▪ Things were definitely looking up, though there was no news from the outside world to prove it.
▪ It took a while for me to notice any difference to my skin, but two months later it definitely looked fresher.
▪ The human was definitely looking at her.
need
▪ The association continues next year - P.S. Does anyone know a good hockey coach - we definitely need one!
▪ The sources have said Johnston definitely needs surgery if he wants to play football again.
▪ I would definitely need to try to find some help from somewhere.
think
▪ And any woman wanting a baby should definitely think twice, because that really is an eternal bond.
▪ I think definitely that the environment is us.
▪ But I definitely think Mugabe will not be able to stay in office until his term expires in 2002.
▪ I think definitely there is a correlation there.
▪ And I definitely think that taking drugs is disgusting.
▪ Yes, I definitely think it's dangerous.
▪ But I definitely think you should come and meet Kathleen tomorrow.
want
▪ But I definitely want some live dates set up by the new year at the latest.
▪ I definitely want to get back in.
▪ Mr. Turner Yes, I definitely want to do that.
▪ Mackey definitely wanted Raymo in on this.
▪ You definitely want to be at full strength.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ According to the data, we can definitely say that pollution is increasing.
▪ It's definitely cold and flu season.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And she had definitely been shaken by the arrival of that letter.
▪ It had taken 10 years for the states definitely to decide where they stood on the question of integration or association.
▪ It is most definitely a thriller, but with strong romantic undertones.
▪ It would definitely be one of three teams, Sunderland, Bristol, or Coventry.
▪ The record should reflect that the witness definitely waved directly at the camera.
▪ They haven't released much, and certainly took their time making this one, but it was definitely worth it.
▪ They will definitely relate to customer service and product quality.
▪ Yet with all his hard work and, definitely, hers, too, he seemed hardly to make a living.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Definitely

Definitely \Def"i*nite*ly\, adv. In a definite manner; with precision; precisely; determinately.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
definitely

1580s, from definite + -ly (2). As a colloquial emphatic word, attested by 1931.

Wiktionary
definitely

adv. 1 Without question and beyond doubt. 2 In a definite manner; decisively.

WordNet
definitely

adv. without question and beyond doubt; "it was decidedly too expensive"; "she told him off in spades"; "by all odds they should win" [syn: decidedly, unquestionably, emphatically, in spades, by all odds]

Usage examples of "definitely".

I admit to mixed feelings about aces, some of whom definitely do abuse their power.

Perhaps the Imperial officer-a Lieutenant Alima, who was definitely not a local-should have paid more attention to the deal.

And if she had to make a guess, he was definitely off his antipsychotic medications.

Government schools is addressed so definitely to the guidance of the artizan, and is therefore so little acknowledged hitherto by the general public, especially by its upper classes.

For they have found that the tribes to the north of the Arunta regularly give their dead a second burial, that a change in the state of the ghosts is believed to coincide with the second burial, and apparently also, though this is not so definitely stated, that the time for the second burial is determined by the disappearance of the flesh from the bones.

At the same time they definitely have not supported Muslims advocating Turkish-modeled moderate independence, like the Chechens, the original Tajik opposition or the Azeri government under President Abulfaz Elchibey.

Maybe it was the glow of her hair or the backlight of the flames--or the look in her eyes because that was definitely fiery.

The proof that the Baldies were definitely here had caused the first rule to be implemented: their cautionary radio silence was now, except for dire emergency, total.

Beside Craig two men who had been talking quietly together in an incomprehensible language-they were northerners, definitely, judging from their heavy blunt features, white faces, fairish hair: Balts or Poles, perhaps Czechs?

Her new surname was certainly apt, Banks thought, as there was definitely something of the gamine about her, a young girl with mischievous charm.

When Bart turned zerker he was definitely going to let Dyfid become his pack brother.

Nobody as yet had got up the nerve to point out to him that private battlecraft definitely were not allowable in the Manon System.

The man was bedworthy in the nth degree but his resentment of her definitely put paid to any possible attraction.

Kantor was far more muscular, his head perhaps a bit blockier, his neck arched and strong, his hindquarters and chest definitely deeper and with fantastically developed muscles.

November was definitely out of season and the constellation was confined to three minor genome-proteone heiresses, the elderly founder of LearningCurve GmB, two balding Bollywood lotharios, the Van der Bilt girl and him .