Conclusive

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Conclusive \Con*clu"sive\, a. [Cf. F. conclusif.]
     Belonging to a close or termination; decisive; convincing;
     putting an end to debate or question; leading to, or
     involving, a conclusion or decision.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           Secret reasons . . . equally conclusive for us as they
           were for them.                           --Rogers.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     {Conclusive evidence} (Law), that of which, from its nature,
        the law allows no contradiction or explanation.
  
     {Conclusive presumption} (Law), an inference which the law
        makes so peremptorily that it will not allow it to be
        overthrown by any contrary proof, however strong.
  
     Syn: Final; ultimate; unanswerable. See {Final}.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  conclusive
       adj 1: forming an end or termination; especially putting an end to
              doubt or question; "conclusive proof"; "the evidence
              is conclusive" [ant: {inconclusive}]
       2: final and deciding; "the conclusive reason"
       3: expressing finality with no implication of possible change;
          "an absolute (or unequivocal) quarantee to respect the
          nation's authority"; "inability to make a conclusive (or
          unequivocal) refusal" [syn: {absolute}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  153 Moby Thesaurus words for "conclusive":
     absolute, adducible, admissible, admitting no exception, all-out,
     apodictic, assuring, attestative, attestive, authentic,
     authoritative, based on, binding, bound, boundary, categorical,
     caudal, certain, circumstantial, clear, clear and distinct,
     clear as day, complete, completing, completive, completory,
     compulsory, concluding, consummative, convictional, convincing,
     crowning, culminating, cumulative, damning, decided, decisive,
     decretory, definite, definitive, determinate, determinative,
     dictated, documentary, documented, downright, endmost, entailed,
     entire, eventual, evidential, evidentiary, ex parte, explicit,
     express, extreme, eye-witness, factual, farthest, final,
     finalizing, finishing, firsthand, fixed, flat, flat-out,
     founded on, fulfilling, global, grounded on, hard-and-fast,
     hearsay, imperative, implicit, imposed, impressive, inappealable,
     incontrovertible, indicative, indisputable, ineluctable,
     inevitable, irrefutable, irresistible, irrevocable, last, limiting,
     mandated, mandatory, material, must, necessary, nuncupative,
     obligatory, out-and-out, outright, overwhelming, peremptory,
     perfect, perfectly sure, persuasive, polar, positive, predestined,
     predetermined, prescript, prescriptive, presumptive, probative,
     reliable, required, round, satisfactory, satisfying, significant,
     straight, straight-out, suggestive, sure, sure-enough, symptomatic,
     tail, telling, terminal, terminating, terminative, total, true,
     ultimate, unambiguous, uncircumscribed, unconditional,
     unconditioned, undoubting, unequivocal, unhampered, unhesitating,
     univocal, unlimited, unmistakable, unmitigated, unqualified,
     unquestioning, unreserved, unrestricted, unwaivable, utter, valid,
     weighty, whole, without appeal, without exception,
     without reserve
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  CONCLUSIVE. What puts an end to a thing. A conclusive presumption of law, is 
  one which cannot be contradicted even by direct and positive proof. Take, 
  for example, the presumption that an infant is incapable of judging whether 
  it is or is not against his interest; When infancy is pleaded and proved, 
  the plaintiff cannot show that the defendant was within one day of being of 
  age when the contract was made, and perfectly competent to make a contract. 
  3 Bouv. Inst. n. 3061.