undecided

English

Etymology

From Middle English undecided, equivalent to un- +‎ decided.

Adjective

undecided (comparative more undecided, superlative most undecided)

1. Open and not yet settled or determined.

   Synonyms: indeterminate, unresolved, unsettled, indecisive

   The question of man's destiny is still undecided.

2. Uncommitted, not having reached a decision.

   Synonyms: ambivalent, irresolute, of two minds, indecisive, unsure

   The result of the election is in doubt because of a large number of undecided voters.

Translations

open and not yet settled or determined

• Bulgarian: нерешен (bg) (nerešen)
• Finnish: ratkaisematon (fi)
• German: unbestimmt (de), unbeantwortet (de), unschlüssig (de), unentschieden (de)
• Korean: 미결정 (ko) (migyeoljeong)의, 결정하지 못한.
• Maori: whēangaanga
• Polish: niepewny (pl) m
• Portuguese: indecidido
• Russian: нерешённый (ru) (nerešónnyj)
• Slovene: neodločen
• Ukrainian: неви́рішений (nevýrišenyj)

uncommitted, not having reached a decision

• Bulgarian: колеблив (bg) (kolebliv)
• Finnish: epäröivä (fi)
• German: unentschlossen (de), unentschieden (de)
• Hungarian: határozatlan (hu)
• Maori: whēangaanga, matawaenga
• Polish: niezdecydowany (pl) m
• Portuguese: indeciso (pt)
• Slovene: neodločen
• Spanish: indeciso (es)

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• Danish: ^{(please verify)} tvivlrådig, ^{(please verify)} ubeslutsom, ^{(please verify)} vankelmodig
• French: ^{(please verify)} hésitant (fr), ^{(please verify)} indécis (fr), ^{(please verify)} velléitaire (fr)
• Greek: ^{(please verify)} άβουλος (el) (ávoulos)
• Greenlandic: ^{(please verify)} isumaa oqippoq, ^{(please verify)} nakimmappoq
• Manx: ^{(please verify)} faitagh
• Maori: ^{(please verify)} harotu, ^{(please verify)} kahurangi (mi)
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} nehotărât (ro), ^{(please verify)} indecis (ro), ^{(please verify)} șovăitor (ro)
• Russian: ^{(please verify)} слабодушный (ru) (slabodušnyj)
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} indeciso (es)
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} kararsız (tr)

Noun

undecided (plural undecideds)

1. A voter etc. who has not yet come to a decision.
   • 2008 February 17, Jennifer Finney Boylan, “At the Maine Caucuses, a Tough Nut to Crack”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The real drama came as these two camps fought for undecideds, who literally found themselves in the middle.

   • 2016, Herb Asher, Polling and the Public: What Every Citizen Should Know:

     […] but that is a highly flawed procedure if the undecideds differ in major ways from the decideds.

Verb

undecided

1. simple past and past participle of undecide

Anagrams

• deinduced