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decidingadjective serving to put an end to all debate or questioningthe project's prohibitive cost was the deciding factor in its cancellation absolute, clear, conclusive, decisive, definitive, last determinate, determinative, dispositive, hands-down, inarguable, incontestable, incontrovertible, indisputable, indubitable, irrefutable, unanswerable, undebatable, undeniable, undisputable, unquestionableunchallenged, uncontested, undisputedunambiguous, unequivocalcertain, definite, positive, surecogent, compelling, convincing, persuasive, telling inconclusive, indecisive, unclear debatable, disputable, doubtable, doubtful, moot, problematic(also problematical), questionable, refutableambiguous, equivocalcontroversial, debated, disputed decidingverbpresent participle of decideto come to a judgment about after discussion or considerationthey decided to go out for pizza after the movie was over choosing, concluding, determining, figuring, naming, opting, resolving, settling (on or upon) decreeing, rulingculling, electing, handpicking, picking, preferring, selecting, singling (out)adjudging, adjudicating, arbitrating, finding, judging, refereeing, ruling (on), umpiringchewing over, cogitating, considering, contemplating, debating, deliberating, entertaining, meditating, mulling (over), pondering, questioning, ruminating, studying, thinking (about or over), weighing abstaining, declining, refusing, rejecting, turning downdelaying, halting, hesitating, stalling, temporizingshilly-shallying, vacillating, waffling, wavering to give an opinion about (something at issue or in dispute)the judge decided that the defendant was not liable for damages adjudging, adjudicating, arbitrating, determining, judging, refereeing, ruling (on), settling, umpiring considering, deeming, deliberating, hearing, pondering, weighingsizing upmediating, moderating, negotiatingprosecuting, tryingfinding (for or against)concluding, resolvingredetermining, rejudging equivocating, hedging, pussyfooting, skirting to come to an agreement or decision concerning the details ofwe waited for our captors to decide our fate agreeing (on), arranging, fixing, setting, settling contracting, pledging, promisingblueprinting, calculating, charting, concerting, designing, drafting, framing, hammering out, intriguing, laying out, maneuvering, mapping (out), planning, programming(or programing), schematizing, scheming, shaping, squaring away, working outchoosing, concluding, determining, figuring, opting, resolvingaffirming, approving, authorizing, clearing, confirming, OK'ing(or okaying), sanctioning, warrantingclosing, completing, ending, finalizing, finishing, rounding (off or out), winding up, wrapping upbargaining, chaffering, dealing, dickering, haggling, horse-trading, negotiating disposing of aborting, calling, calling off, dropping, recalling, repealing, rescinding, revokingdiffering (over), disagreeing (with)countering, debating, objecting, opposing, protesting, resistingcontesting, disputing to make final, definite, or beyond disputethe huge sum that they were offering decided the matter: we would sell the house clinching, determining, nailing, settling demonstrating, establishing, nailing (down), proving, showingaffirming, assuring, ensuring, insuring, securingdefining, specifying, stating, stipulatingclarifying, clearing (up), illuminatingconcluding, ending, finishing confusing, muddling, muddying, unsettling to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and informationthe commanding officer decided that the soldier was indeed telling the truth concluding, deducing, deriving, extrapolating, gathering, inferring, judging, making out, reasoning, understanding assuming, supposingconjecturing, guessing, speculating, surmisingconstruing, interpreting, readingcontemplating, philosophizing, rationalizing, thinkingascertaining, doping (out), finding out drawing a conclusion in 1611 |