decisive
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decisive (comparative more decisive, superlative most decisive)
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- Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive.
- A decisive battle is fatal for one side's war chances
- Marked by promptness and decision.
- A noble instance of this attribute of the decisive character. -J. Foster.
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having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy
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marked by promptness and decision
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- decisive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Part or all of this page has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
- decisive in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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decisive
- Feminine plural of decisivo
