Decisive

Definitions: Decisive

Decisive

Adjective

1. Determining or having the power to determine an outcome; "cast the decisive vote"; "two factors had a decisive influence".

2. Unmistakable; "had a decisive lead in the polls".

3. Characterized by decision and firmness; "an able an decisive young woman"; "we needed decisive leadership"; "she gave him a decisive answer".

4. Forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis; "a critical point in the campaign"; "the critical test".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "decisive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1686. (references)

Synonym: Decisive

Certainty

Unqualified, absolute, positive, determinate, definite, clear, unequivocal, categorical, unmistakable, decisive, decided, ascertained.

Choice

Take a decided step, take a decisive step; commit oneself to a course; pass the Rubicon, cross the Rubicon; cast in one's lot with; take for better or for worse.

Demonstration

Categorical, decisive, crucial.

Resolution

Verb: have determination; Noun: know one's own mind; be resolved; Adjective: make up one's mind, will, resolve, determine; decide; (judgment); form a determination, come to a determination, come to a resolution, come to a resolve; conclude, fix, seal, determine once for all, bring to a crisis, drive matters to an extremity; take a decisive step; (choice); take upon oneself; (undertake).

Crosswords: Decisive

Sir, it's immediate, it's decisive, it's low-risk, and it's a proportional response. (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

Whenever and wherever this invasion may come, gentlemen I shall destroy the enemy there, at the water's edge! Believe me, gentlemen, the first 24 hours of the invasion will be decisive. For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day The longest day! (The Longest Day; writing credit: Romain Gary; James Jones)

The decisive battle will be fought there. (Shichinin no samurai; writing credit: Shinobu Hashimoto; Akira Kurosawa)

The American Frontier: Decisive Battles (2000)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• 100 Decisive Battles: From Ancient Times to the Present (reference)

• Battles That Changed History: Fifty Decisive Battles Spanning over 2,500 Years of Warfare (reference)

• Decisive Day: The Battle for Bunker Hill (reference)

• The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World from Marathon to Waterloo (reference)

• The Final Invasion: Plattsburgh, the War of 1812's Most Decisive Battle (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Decisive Victory (reference)

• Frontier: The Decisive Battles SET-Frontier: The Decisive Battles SET (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And where-ever there are any number of men, however associated, that have no such decisive power to appeal to, there they are still in the state of nature. (Second Treatise of Government)

Finally, in times when the class struggle nears the decisive hour, the process of dissolution going on within the ruling class, in fact within the whole range of society, assumes such a violent, glaring character, that a small section of the ruling class cuts itself adrift, and joins the revolutionary class, the class that holds the future in its hands. (reference)

A world organization has already been erected for the prime purpose of preventing war, UNO, the successor of the League of Nations, with the decisive addition of the United States and all that means, is already at work. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

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The style of the visit, and the shortness of it, were then felt to be decisive.

The decisive moment had arrived.

After this decisive conclusion, I entreated to be heard a word or two.

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Business

Price is often not considered a decisive factor. (references)

While price is a decisive factor, brand recognition, especially among institutional users, prevails. (references)

Financing conditions are a basic and decisive factor in a firm's ability to compete in the Argentine market. (references)

Economic History

Ukraine

Price and quality are the decisive factors in consumer choice. (references)

Bolivia

Paz Zamora's regime was less decisive against narcotics trafficking. (references)

Jamaica

Local elections were held in 1998, when the PNP won a decisive victory. (references)

Human Rights

Uzbekistan

State prosecutors play a decisive role in the criminal justice system. (references)

India

Under a Supreme Court ruling, the Chief Justice, in consultation with his colleagues, has a decisive voice in selecting judicial candidates. (references)

Yugoslavia

However, the new laws on the judiciary establish an independent body to appoint judges and give the judicial branch decisive control over hiring assignments and discipline. (references)

Political Economy

Netherlands

The Dutch play a decisive role in European political and monetary integration. (references)

Yemen

On August 3, 1998 the government began to take decisive measures against kidnappers and bandits. (references)

Bulgaria

Petur Stoyanov of the Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) won a decisive victory in the November 1996 presidential election. (references)

Political Rights

Barbados

In the 1999 elections, the BLP won a decisive victory, gaining a 26-to-2 majority over the Democratic Labour Party. (references)

Trade

Italy

Special attention should be given to the prompt observance of agreed delivery schedules, as prompt delivery may be a decisive and possibly an overriding consideration of the importer in placing additional orders. (references)

Women

Senegal

Most human rights organizations considered the law to be a decisive step towards greater protection of women. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "decisive": be decisive in ♦ be decisive of ♦ decisive battle ♦ decisive factor ♦ decisive link of chain ♦ decisive moment ♦ decisive point ♦ prove decisive ♦ take a decisive step. Additional references.

Ending with "decisive": all-decisive.

Albanian

vendimtar (conclusive, critical, crucial, determinant, determinative, winning), i vendosur (decided, determinate, determined, established, firm, fixed, hell-bent, inveterate, nervy, purposeful, resolute, resolved, set, situated, stalwart, stiff, stout, strong, unalterable, unfaltering, unhesitating), bindës (cogent, conclusive, convincing, forcible, persuasive, plausible). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فاصل (bar, break, conclusive, dividing, entr'acte, interval, separative), ‏مفحم (cogent, confuting, convincing, potent), ‏قاطع (boycott, break away, categorical, chip, conclusive, definite, disruption, disturb, dogmatic, edgy, final, have no truck with, incisive, interrupt, keen, partition, peremptory, positive, sharp, unqualified), ‏حاسم (absolute, categorical, conclusive, critical, crucial, decided, definite, definitive, determinate, fateful, final, high, peremptory, pivotal, unqualified), ‏حازم (determined, firm, gritty, resolute, steadfast, steady, strong-willed, tough), ‏بات (bed, categorical, home, roost, square, unqualified). (various references)

Bulgarian 

решаващ (conclusive, crucial, determinant, determinative, last), решителен (chopping, crisp, decided, determined, drastic, fateful, flat-footed, heroic, high-spirited, obstinate, peremptory, plucky, plump, point blank, pronounced, purposeful, purposive, resolute, ringing, stable, stalwart, straight out, strong-minded, sturdy, thoroughgoing, trenchant, ultimate, unfaltering, unflinching, unhesitating, utter, winning). (various references)

Chinese 

果斷 (firm), 果断 (Decisiveness), 決定性 . (various references)

Czech

smìrodatný (standard), rozhodující (chief, commanding, critical, crucial, determinative, fatal, main, predominant, supreme, vital, winning), rozhodný (assertive, categorical, conclusive, decided, definite, determined, firm, peremptory, point blank, resolute, strong, strong-minded, unhesitating, unqualified), energický (assertive, brisk, decisively, energetic, enterprising, firm, forceful, forcefully, go ahead, high-powered, perky, red blooded, strenuous, strong, vigorous, vital). (various references)

Danish

der forekommer en faktisk omstændighed af afgørende betydning,der var ukendt for Domstolen (and which was unknown to the Court, discovery of a fact which is of such a nature as to be a decisive factor), dannelsen af daeklaget spiller en afgoerende rolle baade ved opkulning og ved nitridering (the formation of the protective layer has a decisive effect on carbonisation and nitridation), et af de afgoerende motiver for aftalen (one of the decisive reasons in concluding the agreement), bestemmende indflydelse (decisive influence). (various references)

Dutch

finaal (at all, entirely, final, quite, wholly), cruciaal, beslissend. (various references)

Esperanto

decidiga, decida. (various references)

Farsi 

قطعی (Absolute, Categorical, Conclusive, Cretain, Definite, Irrevocable, Last, Peremptory, Positive, Sure, Trenchant, Ultimatum, Uncompromising, Unconditional), قاطع (Categorical, Clincher, Conclusive, Crucial, Incisive, Overbearing, Secant, Trenchant, Unanswerable). (various references)

Finnish

ratkaiseva (conclusive). (various references)

French

décisif (decided, definitive), catégorique. (various references)

Frisian

beskiedend (effective, effectual, efficacious), ôfdwaande (effective, effectual, efficacious). (various references)

German

entscheidend (arbitrative, clinching, conclusive, conclusively, critical, crucial, deciding, decisively, fatal, governing, make or break, operative, vital, winning). (various references)

Greek 

κατηγορηματικόσ (assertive, categorical, explicit, predicative), καθοριστικόσ (determinant, determinative, determined), αποφασιστικόσ (crucial, decided, determinative, determined, resolute, strong-minded). (various references)

Hebrew 

מכריע (amphibrach, arbitrator, conclusive, critical, crucial, definitive, overwhelming, pivotal), חותך (biting, incisive, secant, transversal), �"חלטי (absolute, assertive, forthright, peremptory, purposeful, stout, tenacious). (various references)

Hungarian

meghatározó (determinate, determinative, determining). (various references)

Indonesian

pasti (assuredly, certain, certainly, definite, definitive, indubitable, resolute, sure), menentukan (decide, definitive, destine, enactive). (various references)

Italian

decisivo (arbitrative, clinching, conclusive, crucial, definitive, final, plump). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

果断 (drastic, resolute), 決然たる (determined, resolute), 決断力 , 決定的 (conclusive, definite, final), 天下分け目 (fateful). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

か� �" (drastic, flower bed, lowercolumn, lowest tier, poetry circles, resolute), けつぜ�"たる (determined, resolute), けつ� �"りょく, けっていてき (conclusive, definite, final), て�"かわけめ (fateful). (various references)

Korean 

단호한 (Emphatic, Emphatical, resolute). (various references)

Manx

reiltagh (according to rule, director, ordinal, president, rector, regular, ruler, ruling), reaghee, briwnyssagh (judicial). (various references)

Norwegian

avgjørende (crucial). (various references)

Papiamen

desisivo. (various references)

Pig Latin

ecisiveday.(various references)

Portuguese

resoluto (accomplished, energetic, game, plucky, purposive, resolute, stalwart, stark, steadfast, stiff, stout, sturdy, unbending, unhesitating, unwavering), decisivo (closing, conclusive, crucial, definitive, determinative, final, forthright, incisive, peremptory, striking, winning), decidido (crisp, decided, determinate, determined, forthright, game, gamy, gritty, intent, purposive, resolute, resolved, routine, settled, stark, strong, unhesitating, unshrinking, unwavering). (various references)

Romanian

determinant (determinant, determinative, determiner), decisiv (conclusive, critical, crucial, definitive, determinant, determinative, fateful, final, ultimate, winning), sacramental (sacramental, solemn), precis (accurate, accurately, certain, clean-cut, clockwork, dead, decided, definite, definitely, distinct, due, even, exact, exactly, flat, just, literal, narrow, positive, precise, regular, sharp, sound, specifically, straight, strict, truly, unambiguous), hotãrâtor (all out, conclusive, crucial, determinative, final, weighty), final (conclusive, death, drop scene, end, ending, eventual, final, finale, finish, last, result, ultimate), crucial (crucial), critic (censorious, climacteric, critic, critical, critically, crucial, delicate, judge, supreme, ticklish), concludent (clinching, cogent, conclusive, convincing, edifying, valid, weighty), categoric (absolute, absolutely, beyond peradventure, categorical, categorically, clear, curt, decided, definite, definitely, dogmatic, downright, emphatic, explicit, explicitly, flat, flatly, formal, much, on the dead, peremptorily, peremptory, plump, positive, positively, simply, Square, stiff, unanswerable, unbending, unqualified). (various references)

Russian 

решающий (conclusive, crucial, determinant, determinative, hump). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ubedljiv (cogent, conceivable, conclusive, convincing, persuasive, satisfying, weighty), presudan (crucial), odsudan, odlučujući (deciding). (various references)

Spanish

decisivo (arbitrative, clinching, momentousness, overriding, vital). (various references)

Swedish

avgörande (Cardinal, conclusion, conclusive, crucial, deciding, decision, definitive, fateful, operative, seminal, vital). (various references)

Turkish

kesin (absolute, accurate, assertive, categorical, certain, cheese it, clean-cut, clear-cut, conclusive, decided, declared, definite, definitive, determined, dogmatic, downright, exact, express, extreme, final, firm, flat, frozen, implicit, indisputable, indubitable, irreversible, irrevocable, mathematical, ocular, outright, peremptory, point blank, pointed, precise, pronounced, rigid, rigorous, round, safe, scientific, specific, spot-on, Square, stark, sure, sure as death, unambiguous, uncompromising, undoubted, unquestionable, unquestioned, unquestioning, utter), kararlı (bent, decided, determined, dogged, firm, flat-footed, hard core, high pressure, immovable, inflexible, intent, professional, resolute, resolved, set, settled, single minded, single-eyed, single-hearted, stable, steadfast, strong-minded, strong-willed, undeterred, unfaltering), belirleyici (arbiter, determinative, significative), azimli (Dauntless, dead-set on, decided, determined, dogged, flat-footed, full of zeal, hellbent, high pressure, militant, peppy, persevering, pertinacious, professional, resolute, resolved, set, single minded, single-eyed, single-hearted, stable, stout, strong-minded, stubborn, sturdy, undeterred, zealous). (various references)

Turkmen 

tцwekgel (firm, resolute), ьzьl-kesil (resolute), kesgin (resolute). (various references)

Ukranian 

сповнений рішучості, рішучий (backboned, categorical, decided, determinate, determined, drastic, grim, manful, purposeful, purposive, resolute, resolved, stalwart, strong-minded, strong-willed, vigorous), вирішальний (all in all, conclusive, critical, crucial, determinant, determinative, fateful, final, winning), остаточний (decided, definitive, determinate, eventual, illative, net, unequivocal), переконливий (cogent, commanding, conclusive, convictive, convincing, demonstrative, forcible, ostensive, persuasive, powerful, stringent). (various references)

Vietnamese 

dứt khoát (blankly, clear-cut, distinct, final, flatly, outright, specific, square, squarely), quyết định kiên quyết, quả quyết (assertive, unconditional). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "decisive": decisively, decisiveness, decisivenesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "decisive": indecisive. (additional references)

Words containing "decisive": indecisively, indecisiveness, indecisivenesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Decisive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dachsie, Decaisnea, decicive, decisate, decisi, decisve, decitive, Delizie, descisive, desicive, devisive, dulcissime, dykeside. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: devices.

-2 letters: civies, deices, device, devise, sieved, viscid, viseed.

-3 letters: cedes, cedis, civie, deice, dices, disci, dives, ivied, ivies, sieve, viced, vices, vised.

-4 letters: cede, cedi, cees, dees, devs, dice, dies, disc, dive, eide, eves, iced, ices, ides, seed, sice, side, vees, vice, vide, vied, vies, vise.

-5 letters: cee, cis, dee, dev, die, dis, eds, eve, ice, ids, sec, see, sei, sic, vee, vie, vis.

+2 letters: decisively, deviancies, directives, disservice, indecisive, verbicides, vermicides, vivisected.

+3 letters: declivities, descriptive, desiccative, discoveries, disservices, viridescent.

+4 letters: decisiveness, disincentive, divergencies, indecisively, misconceived, misperceived.

+5 letters: collectivised, descriptively, directivities, disincentives, improvidences, rediscoveries, rediscovering, semicivilized, subjectivised, subjectivized, valedictories.

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