Dictionary Definition
indecisive adj
1 characterized by lack of decision and firmness;
"an indecisive manager brought the enterprise to a standstill"
[ant: decisive]
2 not definitely settling something; "a long and
indecisive war" [ant: decisive]
3 not clearly defined; "indecisive boundaries
running through mountains"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
- In the context of "of a person": Not decisive.
- Girls are very indecisive. They spend ages choosing a dress.
- In the context of "of a contest etc.": inconclusive or uncertain
- The outcome of the race was so indecisive.
Translations
Not decisive
- Finnish: päättämätön, jahkaileva
inconclusive or uncertain
- Finnish: ratkaisematon
Derived terms
Antonyms
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
adrift,
afloat, agnostic, aleatoric, aleatory, alternating, ambiguous, ambitendent, ambivalent, amorphic, amorphous, anarchic, at loose ends,
baggy, bland, blobby, blurred, blurry, borderline, broad, capricious, chance, chancy, changeable, changeful, chaotic, characterless, confused, desultory, deviable, dicey, disordered, disorderly, dizzy, double-minded, doubtful, doubting, dubious, eccentric, equivocal, erratic, faltering, fast and loose,
featureless,
fence-sitting, fence-straddling, fickle, fitful, flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, foggy, formless, freakish, fuzzy, general, giddy, groundless, halfhearted, halting, hazy, hesitant, hesitating, hit-or-miss,
ill-defined, impetuous, imprecise, impulsive, inaccurate, incalculable, inchoate, incoherent, inconclusive, inconsistent, inconstant, indefinable, indefinite, indemonstrable, indeterminable, indeterminate, indistinct, inexact, infirm, infirm of purpose, infirm
of will, inform, insipid, irregular, irresolute, irresolved, irresponsible, kaleidoscopic, lax, loose, lumpen, mazy, mercurial, milk-and-water,
milky, misty, moody, moot, mugwumpian, mugwumpish, mushy, mutable, namby-pamby, neutral, nondescript, nonspecific, not following,
not proved, obscure, of
two minds, open, orderless, polysemous, problematic, rambling, random, restless, roving, scatterbrained, shadowed
forth, shadowy, shaky, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shilly-shallying,
shuffling, skeptical, spasmodic, spineless, stochastic, sweeping, tasteless, tentative, tergiversating,
touch-and-go, unaccountable, unascertained, unattested, unauthenticated,
uncertain, uncertified, unclear, unconfirmable, unconfirmed, uncontrolled, unconvinced, uncorroborated, undecided, undefined, undemonstrated, undependable, undestined, undetermined, undisciplined, undivinable, unestablished, unfixed, unforeseeable, unfounded, unordered, unorganized, unpersuaded, unplain, unpredictable, unprovable, unproved, unproven, unreliable, unresolved, unrestrained, unsettled, unshown, unspecified, unstable, unstable as water,
unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsubstantiated,
unsupported,
unsupported by evidence, unsure, unsustained, untested, untried, unvalidated, unverifiable, unverified, vacillating, vagrant, vague, vapid, variable, veiled, vicissitudinary,
vicissitudinous,
volatile, wandering, wanton, watery, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy,
without basis, without grounds