determinative
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8.2
- adjective
- /dɪˈtɜːrmɪnətɪv/
:
decisivo
- The study revealed that socioeconomic status is often determinative in educational outcomes.
- determinative factor
- determinative role
We are radically self determinative creatures.
- We are radically self determinative creatures.
- It can certainly be a factor in it, but it is not the determinative factor.
- Not that you are not cognizant of it, but your voyages and learning through experience are more determinative of your response to her work.
- Race was determinative of the Vardier jury selection strategy of the District Attorney.
- We can't use the means of science to decide what in fact are the eternal, overlapping and determinative things.
Examples
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All of these can have a determinative impact on health care access, especially for someone with limited resources.
Academic text (2017) -
The fourth criterion, regarding the employer receiving "no immediate advantage from the trainees' activities," was the determinative issue.
Academic text (2017) -
While this point should be acknowledged, I do not think it is determinative for the question of this article.
Academic text (2008) -
Race was determinative of the Vardier jury selection strategy of the District Attorney.
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The entity's status under state law is not determinative for federal income tax purposes.
Blog text (18) -
Are these factors determinative or, alternatively, accommodative to new countries and ways of doing things?
Academic text (2002) -
To assume that what happened early in life was fully determinative of later thinking and behavior was a gross oversimplification.
Academic text (1995) -
Quite obviously, the factors that we considered determinative in Lamb's Chapel and Widmar exist here as well.
Academic text (1995) -
Despite these varying applications, the margin of appreciation doctrine was the determinative question in Grainger.
Academic text (2016) -
Perhaps social issues—abortion rights, gun control, civil liberties—prove more determinative of whom we support and why.
Academic text (1995)
Synonyms
74
4.0
A strong effect that changes the result
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8.1
Having the power to decide the final result
Able to decide the final outcome
Having the power to make the final result clear
Antonyms
How Decisive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Determinative comes from the same old Latin parts de- 'completely' and terminare 'to end', and has the same root as determine 'to decide'. That's why something described as determinative is 'decisive'—it has the power to decide the final result.