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CONCLUSIVE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Forming an end or termination; especially putting an end to doubt or question
Example:
the evidence is conclusive
Classified under:
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:
Some of the quartz sand coming from the crater had planar deformation features indicative of a violent impact; this is conclusive evidence that the depression beneath the Hiawatha Glacier is a meteorite crater, said associate professor Nicolaj Larsen of Aarhus University in Denmark, one of the authors of the study..
(Unexpected Discovery Under Greenland Ice, NASA)
I hardly consider that a conclusive proof.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Nothing could be more conclusive.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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