The phrase "more definite than" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is used to compare the level of clarity or specificity between two things. Example: "The instructions in the recipe were more definite than those in the cooking video." This means that the instructions in the recipe were clearer and more specific than the instructions in the cooking video. Another example: "Sarah's answer was more definite than John's." This means that Sarah's answer was more precise and clear than John's answer.
York supporters can only hope it is more definite than the one they read last Wednesday.
Mr. Cenedella said that was more definite than the subtler indications of tough times he had sometimes noticed.
In any event, my Brother HARLAN'S 'Anglo-American legal heritage' is no more definite than the 'notions of justice of English-speaking peoples' or the shock-of-the-conscience test.
I think the term 'roadmap' is used because it is more definite than a vision – there are a lot of specifics in there – but less definite than a plan.
Diana Fortuna, the president of the Citizens Budget Commission, a fiscal watchdog group financed by businesses, said that, from the city's perspective, "the bad news here is more definite than the good news".
When a cry of "Land ahoy!" rings out, Jim sees a distant outline, at first "no more definite than a breath on a windowpane," then acquiring substance and becoming "an almond shape, like half an eye," then transforming into a mountain, then "three mountains, running up clear in spires of naked rock".
However, while SZ−FTD produced more definite NPs than SZ + FTD, the difference did not survive Bonferroni correction.
The following measurements, with callipers, of four purely Siamese heads, may convey a more definite idea than any description I can give.
This "Japanese flavor" has a more definite meaning than, say, "the American way," or "the French touch," if only because Japan remains so intensely conscious of its Japaneseness.
No wonder then that the easy heroics of James Bond remain compelling, and when The Night Manager was adapted recently it was given a more definite closure than the book's ending, which made it far more optimistic in its view of the ability of the good Englishman – and woman – to take on global corruption.
In "A Child of the Century," he wrote: "Had I contented myself with writing books, as I started out to do when I was 17, I might have acquired a more definite identity than I seem to have, among the critics, if nowhere else.
