Indecisive

Definition: Indecisive

Indecisive

Adjective

1. Characterized by lack of decision and firmness; "an indecisive manager brought the enterprise to a standstill".

2. Not definitely settling something; "a long and indecisive war".

3. Not clearly defined; "indecisive boundaries running through mountains".

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

Date "indecisive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references)

Uncertainty

Doubtful, dubious; indecisive; unsettled, undecided, undetermined; in suspense, open to discussion; controvertible; in question; (inquiry).

Crosswords: Indecisive

I used to be indecisive, but now I'm not so sure. (references; author: unknown)

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

Books

• Los Anos Indecisos / The Indecisive Years (reference)

• The Indecisive Memento (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Albanian

i pazgjedhur (irresolvable, undetermined, unpicked, unresolved, unselected, unsettled, unsolved), i pavendosur (dubious, hesitant, irresolute, purposeless, sticky, suspensive, undecided, undetermined, unresolved, unsettled, unsteady), ngurrues (diffident, faltering, hesitant, hesitating, loath, loth, reluctant, vacillating). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متردد (ambivalent, chary, double-minded, doubtful, dubious, faint-hearted, faltering, flickering, haunting, hesitant, hesitating, infirm, irresolute, remittent, stammerer, tentative, timid, uncertain, undecided, unsettled, vacillating, wavering), ‏غير محدد (iffy, indefinite, indeterminate, sloppy, undefined), ‏غير حاسم (inconclusive), ‏غامض (abstruse, ambiguous, cloudy, deep, dim, double faced, dreamy, enigmatic, evasive, fuzzy, grave, hazy, impenetrable, incomprehensible, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, indistinguishable, inscrutable, intangible, lax, magic, magical, misty, mysterious, mystic, nebulous, obscure, occult, opaque, puzzling, recondite, secret, shady, sketchy, slippery, sloppy, uncertain, unintelligible, vague, woolly). (various references)

Bulgarian 

неясен (abstruse, ambiguous, amorphous, blear, bleary, confused, crepuscular, dark, doubtful, dreamy, dusk, fuzzy, hazy, illegible, inarticulate, indefinable, indefinite, indistinct, intangible, involved, inward, loose, misty, muddy, muzzy, nebulous, obscure, pale, recondite, shadowy, soft, transcendental, ulterior, unclear, undecided, unformed, vague, vapory, vapoury, wan, woolly), нерешителен (double-minded, faltering, half hearted, hesitant, hesitative, indeterminate, irresolute, purposeless, shilly shally, suspensive, undecided, undetermined, unready, unresolved, weak), неокончателен (inconclusive, indeterminate, interlocutory, undecisive), неопределен (ambiguous, amorphous, formless, inconclusive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate, indistinct, inexplicit, infinitive, loose, neutral, nondescript, uncertain, undefined, undetermined, unidentified, vague). (various references)

Chinese 

犹豫不决 (INDECISION, irresolute). (various references)

Czech

nerozhodný (drawn, even, fifty fifty, half hearted, hesitant, irresolute, unassertive, undecided). (various references)

Danish

selvusikker psykopat (indecisive personality). (various references)

Dutch

wankel, onzeker (uncertain), besluiteloos (irresolute, undecided). (various references)

Esperanto

ŝanceliĝema. (various references)

Farsi 

غیرقطعی (Indefinite, Insecure), دودل (Hesitant). (various references)

Finnish

neuvoton (at a loss, in a state of indecision, irresolute). (various references)

French

irrésolu (infirm), indécis (indistinct, infirm), flou. (various references)

German

unentschlossen (hesitant, iffy, irresolute, irresolutely, namby-pamby, seesawed, undecided, undecisive, undetermined, unresolved, unsettled, vacillating, waveringly), unbestimmt (equivocal, equivocally, inconclusive, inconclusively, indecisively, indefinite, indeterminate, nondescript, shadowy, unassigned, uncertain, uncertainly, undecided, undefined, undefinedly, undesignated, undetermined, unsettled, vague, vaguely). (various references)

Greek 

αναποφάσιστοσ (irresolute, undecided, undetermined, waverer), διστακτικός (diffident, hesitant, reluctant). (various references)

Hebrew 

מהסס (hesitant, shilly shally, undecided, waverer), הססני (hesitant, indeterminate, irresolute, tentative, timid). (various references)

Hungarian

tétovázó (faltering, hesitant, irresolute, shilly-shally, wobbly), nem meggyőző (inconclusive, unconvincing), nem elhatározó, nem döntő (inconclusive), nem bizonyító erejű, határozni nem tudó, határozatlan (equivocal, hesitant, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, inexplicit, infirm, invertebrate, irresolute, obscure, shilly shally, shilly-shally, to be on the hedge, transcendental, undecided, undecisive, undetermined, unresolved, unsettled, weak-kneed), habozó (demurrer, faltering, hesitant, hesitating, hesitative, infirm, shilly-shally, to blow hot a cold, uncertain, waverer), dönteni nem tudó. (various references)

Indonesian

bimbang (doubt, hesitate, vacillate, worried). (various references)

Italian

indeciso (irresolute, undecided, unsettled), non decisivo. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

煮え切らない (half-cooked, halfhearted, vague), 不明確 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふめいかく, にえきらない (half-cooked, halfhearted, vague). (various references)

Manx

neureaghee (inexplicable, inextricable). (various references)

Norwegian

ubesluttsom (irresolute). (various references)

Pig Latin

indecisiveay.(various references)

Portuguese

irresoluto (double-minded, half-hearted, hesitant, infirm, irresolute, shilly-shally, undecided, undetermined, unready, unresolved, unsettled, unsolved, unsteady, up in the air, vacillating, wavering, weak-kneed), indeciso (blear, double-minded, doubtful, drawn, feckless, fitful, half-hearted, halting, indeterminate, irresolute, lacklustre, pendant, pendent, pending, shilly-shally, suspended, undecided, undetermined, unresolved, unsettled, unsolved, unsteady, up in the air, vacillating, vague, wavering), vago (empty, faraway, fuzzy, general, half-hearted, hazy, indefinite, indescribable, indeterminate, jumbled up, lax, loose, nebulous, neutral, remote, spare, transcendental, vacant, vague), n�o decisivo, hesitante (deliberate, diffident, double-minded, doubting, dubious, faltering, fumbling, half-hearted, halting, hesitant, irresolute, limp, perplexed, reluctant, undecided, unresolved, unsteady, vacillating, wavering, wobbly). (various references)

Romanian

nesigur (chancy, conjectural, doubtful, dubious, erratic, fitful, hesitating, in doubt, inconstant, insecure, irresolutely, rocky, ticklish, uncertain, unsafe), nehotãrât (at pause, doubtful, dubitative, hesitating, indefinite, infirm of purpose, irresolute, namby-pamby, pendent, pending, undecided, vague), neconcludent (inconclusive). (various references)

Russian 

нерешающий (inconclusive, undecisive), нерешительный (double minded, double-minded, half hearted, halfhearted, half-hearted, hesitating, infirm, infirm of purpose, irresolute, shilly shally, spiritless, suspensive, undecided, undetermined, unresolved, vacillating), неопределенный (atemporal, chancy, dusty, hazy, iffy, imponderable, imprecise, indefinite, indeterminate, inexplicit, infinite, infinitive, lax, suspenseful, uncertain, undefined, undetermined, unspecified, unsure, vague). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nepresudan, neodlučan (ambivalent, half hearted, halfhearted, hesitant, hesitative, irresolute, lackadaisical, undecided, undecisive, wavering, weak-minded, wishy washy). (various references)

Spanish

indeciso (irresolute, procrastinator, purposeless, undecided, undecisive, waverer, waveringly). (various references)

Swedish

inte bindande, inte avgörande (inconclusive), obestämd (airy, dreamy, fluid, indefinite, indeterminate, inexplicit, intangible, obscure, uncertain, undecided, undetermined), obeslutsam (infirm, irresolute, undecided). (various references)

Thai

ที่ไม่เด็ดขาด, ซึ่งลังเล. (various references)

Turkish

kuşkulu (creaky, debatable, distrustful, doubtful, doubting, hesitant, jaundiced, questionable, suspect, suspicious), kararsız (ambivalent, astatic, baffling, changeable, changeful, double-minded, doubtful, dubious, erratic, faltering, fickle, flighty, fluctuating, flukey, fluky, fluxional, halting, hazy, hesitant, inconsistent, inconstant, infirm, infirm of purpose, irresolute, precarious, restless, shilly shally, uncertain, uncommitted, undecided, undetermined, unresolved, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, vacillating, vagabond, vague, wayward, weak-kneed), karara bağlanamayan (indeterminable), şüpheli (chancy, contestable, creaky, debatable, discredited, disputable, dodgy, doubtful, dubious, dubitative, equivocal, fishy, funny, funny peculiar, hazardous, indefinable, murky, nebulous, precarious, problematic, problematical, sceptical, screwy, shadowy, shady, shaky, skeptical, speculative, suspect, suspenseful, suspicious, umbrageous, uncertain, unconvincing). (various references)

Ukrainian

нерішучий (backward, double-minded, faltering, half hearted, hesitant, irresolute, pendulous, shilly shally, sticky, suspensive, undecided, undetermined, unready, unresolved, unsteadfast, vacillating, vague, wavery, weak), невирішальний, невиразний (chancy, characterless, dim, elusive, expressionless, faint, featureless, foggy, hazy, ineffective, inexpressive, milk and water, nebulose, nebulous, neutral, obscure, toneless, weak, wishy washy, woolly, wooly). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lưỡng lự (double-minded, doubtful, dubious, dubitative, haltingly, hesitant, hesitatingly, hesitative, seesaw, shilly-shally, undecided, unsteady), không r (indefinable), không quyết định lờ mờ, không quả quyết (indeterminate, undetermined), không dứt khoát (iffy, indefinitive, undecided, unsettled), do dự (double-minded, dubitative, hesitant, hesitatingly, hesitative, indeterminate, irresolute, shilly-shally, suspensive, undecided, undecisive, undetermined, unsettled, wavering). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "indecisive": indecisively, indecisiveness, indecisivenesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Indecisive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: indecicive. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: decisive, divinise, incisive, inviscid.

-3 letters: deveins, devices, divines, endives, evinced, evinces, incised, indices.

-4 letters: censed, civies, deices, denies, devein, device, devise, dienes, divine, edenic, endive, envied, envies, evince, incise, indies, inside, nieces, nieves, seined, sieved, veined, viscid, viseed.

-5 letters: cedes, cedis, cense, cines, civie, deice, denes, dense, dices, diene, dines, disci, dives, evens, indie.

+2 letters: disincentive, indecisively.

+3 letters: disincentives.

+4 letters: indecisiveness, vindictiveness.

+5 letters: distinctiveness, underactivities.