Definite vs Noteworthy - What's the difference?
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Having distinct limits.
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Free from any doubt.
Determined; resolved.
(linguistics) Designating an identified or immediately identifiable person or thing.
Deserving attention; notable; worthy of notice.
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A noteworthy person.
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=2009-08-19, author=Phoebe Eaton, title=Charles Finch: The Cannes-Do Guy, work=New York Times
, passage=One of the French Riviera’s most reliable characters is Charles Finch, a month-of-May migrant worker who jets in for the Cannes Film Festival, bunking up at the stately Hôtel du Cap with the show folk and other noteworthies who come primed to toast their outrageous fortune here with $40 Bellinis. }}
Definite is a related term of noteworthy.
As adjectives the difference between definite and noteworthy
is that definite is having distinct limits while noteworthy is deserving attention; notable; worthy of notice.As nouns the difference between definite and noteworthy
is that definite is (obsolete) anything that is defined or determined while noteworthy is a noteworthy person.definite
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- definite''' dimensions; a '''definite''' measure; a '''definite period or interval
- Elements combine in definite proportions.
- definite knowledge
- (Shakespeare)
- the definite article
Antonyms
* indefinitenoteworthy
English
Adjective
(er)- Zukertort represent the other most noteworthy tournaments.
- Yet Hodgson’s men played with wonderful control. Their young full-backs, Luke Shaw and Nathaniel Clyne, epitomised their composure and Fraser Forster had to make only one noteworthy save before Andy Robertson’s goal, seven minutes from the end of time, temporarily threatened a winning position.
Noun
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