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English
Etymology
From Middle French décisif, equivalent to decide + -ive.
Pronunciation
Adjective
decisive (comparative more decisive, superlative most decisive)
- Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive.
- decisive vote
- decisive battle
2011 November 3, Chris Bevan, “Rubin Kazan 1 - 0 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport:In truth, Tottenham never really looked like taking all three points and this defeat means they face a battle to reach the knockout stages -with their next home game against PAOK Salonika on 30 November likely to prove decisive.
- Decided; definite; incontrovertible.
- decisive victory
- Marked by promptness and decision.
decisive action
1804, John Foster, Essays, in a Series of Letters:A noble instance of this attribute of the decisive character.
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Translations
having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy
- Azerbaijani: həlledici
- Bulgarian: решаващ (bg) (rešavašt)
- Catalan: decisiu (ca)
- Czech: rozhodující (cs), směrodatný
- Danish: afgørende
- Dutch: beslissend (nl), afdoend (nl), doorslaggevend (nl)
- Finnish: ratkaiseva (fi)
- French: décisif (fr)
- Galician: decisivo
- German: entscheidend (de), ausschlaggebend (de)
- Greek: αποφασιστικός (el) (apofasistikós)
- Ancient: κρίσιμος (krísimos)
- Hebrew: החלטי (hekhlet'y)
- Hungarian: döntő (hu), mérvadó (hu)
- Irish: cinntitheach, cinniúnach
- Italian: decisivo (it), determinante (it), sostanziale (it)
- Latvian: izšķirošs
- Persian: تعیینکننده
- Polish: decydujący (pl), przesądzający, rozsądzający
- Portuguese: decisivo (pt)
- Russian: решающий (ru) (rešajuščij)
- Serbo-Croatian: odlùčujūćī, prȅsudan (sh)
- Spanish: decisivo (es)
- Swedish: avgörande (sv), utslagsgivande, bestämmande (sv)
- Ukrainian: виріша́льний (vyrišálʹnyj)
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marked by promptness and decision
References
- “decisive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E Smith, editors (1911), “decisive”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
Anagrams
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de.t͡ʃiˈzi.ve/
- Rhymes: -ive
- Hyphenation: de‧ci‧sì‧ve
Adjective
decisive
- feminine plural of decisivo