Determinative Synonyms

dĭ-tûrmə-nātĭv, -nə-
Serving the function of deciding or settling with finality
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. authoritative
  2. conclusive
  3. decisive
  4. definitive
  5. final
Determining or having the power to determine an outcome
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. deciding
  2. conclusive
  3. crucial
  4. decisive
  5. determinant
  6. determining
A determining or causal element or factor
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. determiner
  2. determinant
  3. determining factor
  4. causal factor
Able or serving to determine:
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. decisive

Words Related to Determinative

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Determinative Sentence Examples

  • Configuration is only one out of many conditions modifying distributions, and its effects on England as a whole appear to be suggestive rather than determinative.

  • The adjudicator's decision, although not finally determinative, may give rise to an immediate payment obligation.

  • Its frequent explanation, however, of incompatible symbols by the doctrines of phonetic variation and interchange, or by alternative values of the same symbol used as ideograph, determinative or phonetic complement, and the occasional use of circular argument in the process of " verification," do not inspire confidence in other than its broader results.

  • In nuisance, if negligence were not involved, compliance with terms of a permit would be relevant but not determinative.

  • I do not find that principle determinative of the present issue.

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