Usually means: Resolute and clear in choices.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. decisive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. decisive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. decisive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. decisive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. decisive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Decisive, decisive: Wordnik
  7. decisive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. decisive: Wiktionary
  9. decisive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. decisive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. decisive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Decisive, decisive: Dictionary.com
  13. decisive: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. decisive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Decisive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. decisive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. decisive: Rhymezone
  18. decisive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. decisive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. decisive: Free Dictionary
  21. decisive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. decisive: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. decisive: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. decisive: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. decisive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. decisive: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Decisive: Chess Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive.
▸ adjective:  Decided; definite; incontrovertible.
▸ adjective:  Marked by promptness and decision.

Similar:
conclusive, fatal, fateful, definite, crucial, important, determinant, resolute, critical, determinative, more...

Opposite:
indecisive, hesitant, uncertain, vacillating, ambivalent

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knockout, more...

Phrases:
decisive factor, decisive action, decisive moment, decisive point, decisive engagement, more...

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    crimson,     charcoal,     emerald,     maroon,     burgundy,     indigo,     teal,     forest green,     royal blue,     scarlet


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Similar:
conclusive, fatal, fateful, definite, crucial, important, determinant, resolute, critical, determinative, more...

Opposite:
indecisive, hesitant, uncertain, vacillating, ambivalent

Types:
knockout, more...

Phrases:
decisive factor, decisive action, decisive moment, decisive point, decisive engagement, The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World, Decisive victory, decisive battle, be decisive, more...

Colors:
    crimson,     charcoal,     emerald,     maroon,     burgundy,     indigo,     teal,     forest green,     royal blue,     scarlet



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