definitely

English

Etymology

definite +‎ -ly

Pronunciation

(UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛf.ɪnɪt.li/, /ˈdɛf.ənɪt.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.
In a definite manner; decisively.
- Nikolai Gogol, The Nose (in translation)
  And the Nose definitely turned away.

Translations

without question and beyond doubt

Arabic: بِالتَّأْكِيد‎ (bi-t-taʾkīd)
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
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
Icelandic: eflaust n

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: please add this translation if you can
Latvian: noteikti
Macedonian: дефинитивно (definitivno), несомнено (nesomneno)
Malay: pasti
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)
Slovene: definitivno, zagotovo, nedvomno
Spanish: definitivamente (es), indudablemente (es) n
Swedish: definitivt (sv)
Turkish: kesinlikle (tr)

in a definite manner

Catalan: decididament (ca)
Finnish: päättäväisesti (fi)

French: décidément (fr), (dated) assurément (fr)
Hungarian: határozottan (hu)

An emphatic affirmative answer; of course

Hungarian: hogyne (hu), persze (hu), természetesen (hu)
Italian: non ci piove

Maori: āpāia

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Translations to be checked

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