Thesaurus
decisive
Synonyms and Antonyms of decisive
- Only a team with a decisive attitude is going to win a state championship.
certain, cocksure, confident, positive, sure
steady, unfaltering, unhesitating, unswerving, unwavering
adamant, adamantine, dogged, hard, hardened, hardheaded, headstrong, immovable, implacable, inflexible, mulish, obdurate, persistent, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, rigid, self-willed, stubborn, tenacious, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding, willful (or wilful)
on one's mettle
distrustful, doubtful, dubious, mistrustful, skeptical, suspicious, uncertain, unconvinced, undecided, unsettled, unsure
disinclined, indisposed, loath (also loth), reluctant
- a lawyer who knows how to construct the kind of decisive argument that sways a jury
- the decisive finding of the investigator regarding the cause of the accident
Synonym Discussion of decisive
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- conclusive evidence
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- a decisive battle
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- the determinative factor in the court's decision
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- the definitive biography
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