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CONCLUSIVE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 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:

Adjectives

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)

Credits

 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)