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definitive

How many syllables in definitive?

  4 syllables

Divide definitive into syllables:   de-fin-i-tive
Stressed syllable in definitive:   de-fin-i-tive
How to pronounce definitive:   dih-fin-i-tiv
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        What rhymes with definitive

        4 syllables
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