Synonyms:
conclusive
Meaning: forming an end or termination; especially putting an end to doubt or question; "conclusive proof"; "the evidence is conclusive"
Usage examples
The argument was deemed conclusive.
At the fifth Sir Richmond was suddenly conclusive.
A fourth and conclusive signal of alarm was registered upon his brain.
Mrs. Perry's answer was decisive, and at the same time conclusive as to the facts.
In seeking for phenomena to prove this proposition, I find only those of two kinds; but in each kind the phenomena are obvious, numerous, and conclusive.
But I could not consider this argument adequate or conclusive, for there are large general considerations of incomparably greater importance which it leaves out altogether.
But where the objects have not so exact a similarity, the analogy is less perfect, and the inference is less conclusive; though still it has some force, in proportion to the degree of similarity and resemblance.
For it set me on my guard as perhaps nothing else would have done, against accepting for true all floating rumour and village gossip, so that now I am by second nature a true sceptic and scarcely believe anything unless the evidence for it is conclusive.
Where the causes are entirely similar, the analogy is perfect, and the inference, drawn from it, is regarded as certain and conclusive: nor does any man ever entertain a doubt, where he sees a piece of iron, that it will have weight and cohesion of parts; as in all other instances, which have ever fallen under his observation.
This view, which has obtained without question in every work on the native religions of America, has arisen partly from habits of thought difficult to break, partly from mistranslations of native words, partly from the foolish axiom of the early missionaries, "The gods of the gentiles are devils." Yet their own writings furnish conclusive proof that no such distinction existed out of their own fancies.