decisive
Meaning of decisive
adjective
- settling an issue; producing a definite result.
the archers played a decisive part in the victory
a decisive battle
- having or showing the ability to make decisions quickly and effectively.
she had an image of being tough and decisive
he handled the situation in a calm, decisive way
early 17th century: from French décisif, -ive, from medieval Latin decisivus, from decis- ‘determined’, from the verb decidere (see decide).
Information about decisive
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of decisive
de-ci-sive
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- decisive is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
decisive synonyms
Meaning critical:
Meaning serving to resolve or settle something:
Meaning (of evidence or argument) having or likely to have the effect of proving a case; decisive:
Meaning causing something to occur or be done in a particular way; serving to decide something:
Meaning allowing no further doubt or dispute:
Meaning resolve or reach an agreement about (an argument or problem):
Meaning of crucial importance:
Meaning of crucial importance in relation to the development or success of something else:
Meaning decisive or critical, especially in the success or failure of something:
Meaning of great importance or significance, especially in having a bearing on future events:
Meaning sufficiently great or important to be worthy of attention; noteworthy:
Meaning having great influence on someone or something:
Meaning (of an artist or artistic work) significantly original and influential:
Meaning important, serious, or significant:
Meaning most important:
Meaning first in order of importance; main:
Meaning of first importance; main:
Meaning more important than anything else; supreme:
Meaning admirably purposeful, determined, and unwavering:
Meaning having a solid, almost unyielding surface or structure:
Meaning having made a firm decision and being resolved not to change it:
Meaning having or showing tenacity and grim persistence:
Meaning having or showing determination or resolve:
Meaning strong and assertive; vigorous and powerful:
Meaning (of an action or its result) definite and clear:
Meaning without doubt or hesitation; immediate:
Meaning not wavering; steady or resolute:
Meaning not changing or becoming weaker; steady or constant:
Meaning not faltering; steady; resolute:
Meaning (of a mass or structure) not giving way to pressure; hard or solid:
Meaning reserved, formal, or strict in one's behaviour or attitudes; austere and inflexible:
Meaning unwilling to change or compromise:
Meaning (of a belief, feeling, or opinion) strongly felt and unable to be changed:
Meaning not yielding in strength, severity, or determination:
Meaning stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or course of action:
Meaning stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or chosen course of action, despite attempts to persuade one to do so:
Meaning having or showing dogged determination not to change one's attitude or position on something, especially in spite of good arguments or reasons to do so:
Meaning unwilling or refusing to change one's views or to agree about something:
Meaning harden:
decisive antonyms
Meaning too small or unimportant to be worth consideration:
Meaning not providing a clear and definite result:
Translation of decisive
- French: déterminant, décisif, décisoire, crucial, conclusif, concluant
- German: entscheidend, ausschlaggebend, maßgeblich, entschieden, entschlossen
- Italian: decisivo, determinante, cruciale
- Spanish: decisivo, determinante, decisiva
- Portuguese: decisivo
Words that rhyme with decisive
abrasive, airbrasive, appeasive, assuasive, corrasive, defeasive, dissuasive, evasive, interpervasive, invasive, nonabrasive, nonevasive, noninvasive, nonpersuasive, occasive, persuasive, pervasive, preinvasive, prepersuasive, suasive, ultrapersuasive, unabrasive, unassuasive, unevasive, uninvasive, unpersuasive, unpervasive, unpleasive, adhesive, cohesive, cresive, equicohesive, inadhesive, incohesive, inhesive, nonadhesive, noncohesive, overaggresive, semiadhesive, succesive, suppresive, unadhesive, uncohesive, advisive, appraisive, cicatrisive, collisive, derisive, divisive, incisive
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