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Definition: Make Up One's Mind |
Make Up One's MindVerb1. Reach, make, or come to a decision about something; "We finally decided after lengthy deliberations". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Make Up One's MindSynonyms: decide (v), determine (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Belief | Know, know for certain; have know, make no doubt; doubt not; be, rest assured; Adjective: persuade oneself, assure oneself, satisfy oneself; make up one's mind. |
Choice | Settle; decide; (adjudge); list; (will); make up one's mind; (resolve). |
Judgment | Verb: judge, conclude; come to a conclusion, draw a conclusion, arrive at a conclusion; ascertain, determine, make up one's mind. |
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). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Expression using "make up one's mind": To make up one's mind. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "make up one's mind"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vendosem (determine, locate, put up, sit down, stand, think fit), vendos (arrange, be determined, Canton, choose, compose, conclude, dare, decide, determine, dispose, elect, elicit, emplace, establish, fix, house, induct, instal, install, instate, judge, lay, locate, place, propose, put, quarter, recline, resolve, rule, seat, set, settle, situate, station, Stow, take the plunge, will). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قرر (affirm, be decided, be determined, be resolved to, choose, conclude, condition, decide, destine, determine, dispose, establish, figure, figure out, fix, make acknowledge, make confess, plump for, propose, regulate, resolve, rule, set, settle, state). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | решавам (adjudicate, choose, conclude, decide, determine, elect, figure out, resolve, seal, settle, solve, work). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 決心 (determination, determined, firm and resolute, resolution, to make up one's mind), 拿主意 (to make a decision, to make up one's mind). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | rozhodnout se (fix, make a choice). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | tot een besluit komen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | decidiĝi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tehdä päätös (decide, determine, resolve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | décider (make up on). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | elhatározza magát (chose, chosen, to choose, to make up one's mind), elhatároz (conclude, decide, determine, to decree, to determine, to fix on, to make a resolution, to set forth, to set out), dönt (decide, opt, to adjudge, to change one's mind, to come to a decision, to decide, to decree, to determine, to hew, to make up one's mind, to topple). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | risolvere (decide, determine, dissolve, resolve, settle, solve, thrash out, turn into, untie, work out), decidere (adjudicate, clinch, decide, determine, elect, make up your mind, resolve, settle, to decide). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 腹'据える (to make up one's mind), 思い定める (to be determined, to make up one's mind). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | おもいさ める (to be determined, to make up one's mind), はら'すえる (to make up one's mind). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | akemay upay one'say indmay tomarumaresolução, determinar (access, affix, appoint, ascertain, condition, define, destine, determinate, determine, fasten, fix, govern, make, make fast, order, post, prescribe, put, resolve, route, secure, set, settle), decidir‐se, decidir (adjudicate, award, decide, find, fix, govern, liquidate, ordain, overrule, resolve, settle, to decide, will). (various references) se hotãrî (decide, determine to, resolve upon), se decide. (various references) решаться (resolve), решать (conclude, decide, determine, elect, judge, make up ~ mind, resolve, settle, solve, solved, solves, work out), надумать. (various references) odlučiti se. (various references) decidir (adjudge, arrange, clinch, decide, decision making, determine, dispose, have in mind, judge, rule, run off, seal). (various references) föresätta sig (make up ones mind, set oneself to), bestämma sig. (various references) karara varmak (arrive at a decision, come to a decision, conclude, determine, find, judge, make a decision, resolve, rule, take a decision), karar vermek (award, decide, hand down, make a decision, resolve, return, settle). (various references) karara gelmek. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "'-a-d-e-e-i-k-m-m-n-n-o-p-s-u" | |
-3 letters: pandemoniums. | |
-4 letters: eudaemonism, pandemonium. | |
-5 letters: menadiones, pneumonias. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Expressions 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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