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Make Up One's Mind

Definition: Make Up One's Mind

Make Up One's Mind

Verb

1. 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 Mind

Synonyms: decide (v), determine (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Make Up One's Mind

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Expression: Make Up One's Mind

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.

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Modern Translation: Make Up One's Mind

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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Romanian

  

se hotãrî (decide, determine to, resolve upon), se decide. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

решаться (resolve), решать (conclude, decide, determine, elect, judge, make up ~ mind, resolve, settle, solve, solved, solves, work out), надумать. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

odlučiti se. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

decidir (adjudge, arrange, clinch, decide, decision making, determine, dispose, have in mind, judge, rule, run off, seal). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

föresätta sig (make up ones mind, set oneself to), bestämma sig. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Turkmen 

  

karara gelmek. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Make Up One's Mind

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.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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