Word Meanings - DECISION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Cutting off; division; detachment of a part. Bp. Pearson. 2. The act of deciding; act of settling or terminating, as a controversy, by giving judgment on the matter at issue; determination, as of a question or doubt; settlement; conclusion.

Additional info about word: DECISION

1. Cutting off; division; detachment of a part. Bp. Pearson. 2. The act of deciding; act of settling or terminating, as a controversy, by giving judgment on the matter at issue; determination, as of a question or doubt; settlement; conclusion. The decision of some dispute. Atterbury. 3. An account or report of a conclusion, especially of a legal adjudication or judicial determination of a question or cause; as, a decision of arbitrators; a decision of the Supreme Court. 4. The quality of being decided; prompt and fixed determination; unwavering firmness; as, to manifest great decision. Syn. -- Decision, Determination, Resolution. Each of these words has two meanings, one implying the act of deciding, determining, or resolving; and the other a habit of mind as to doing. It is in the last sense that the words are here compared. Decision is a cutting short. It implies that several courses of action have been presented to the mind, and that the choice is now finally made. It supposes, therefore, a union of promptitude and energy. Determination is the natural consequence of decision. It is the settling of a thing with a fixed purpose to adhere. Resolution is the necessary result in a mind which is characterized by firmness. It is a spirit which scatters all doubt, and is ready to face danger or suffering in carrying out one's determinations. Martin Luther was equally distinguished for his prompt decision, his steadfast determination, and his inflexible resolution.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DECISION)

• Decree
• Decision
• determination
• mandate
• law
• edict
• manifesto
• rule
• verdict
• order
• judgment
• ordinance
• proclamation
• Judgment
• adjudication
• sagacity
• penetration
• judiciousness
• sense
• intellect
• belief
• estimation
• opinion
• sentence
• discernment
• discrimination
• intelligence
• prudence
• award
• condemnation
• Rule
• Regulation
• precept
• principle
• maxim
• practice
• guide
• canon
• method
• direction
• authority
• control
• mastery
• government
• decision
• habit
• Verdict
• Finding
• answer

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DECISION)

• Neglect
• abandon
• license
• berate
• free
• mismanage
• misconduct

Related words: (words related to DECISION)

• JUDGMENT
  The final award; the last sentence. Note: Judgment, abridgment, acknowledgment, and lodgment are in England sometimes written, judgement, abridgement, acknowledgement, and lodgement. Note: Judgment is used adjectively in many self-explaining
• SENSE
  A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing,
• OPINIONATOR
  An opinionated person; one given to conjecture. South.
• CANONISTIC
  Of or pertaining to a canonist. "This canonistic exposition." Milton.
• HABITURE
  Habitude.
• FINDER
  One who, or that which, finds; specifically , a small telescope of low power and large field of view, attached to a larger telescope, for the purpose of finding an object more readily.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• PRECEPTIAL
  Preceptive. would give preceptial medicine to rage. Shak.
• CONTROLLABLENESS
  Capability of being controlled.
• CANONICITY
  The state or quality of being canonical; agreement with the canon.
• HABITED
  1. Clothed; arrayed; dressed; as, he was habited like a shepherd. 2. Fixed by habit; accustomed. So habited he was in sobriety. Fuller. 3. Inhabited. Another world, which is habited by the ghosts of men and women. Addison.
• CANON BONE
  The shank bone, or great bone above the fetlock, in the fore and hind legs of the horse and allied animals, corresponding to the middle metacarpal or metatarsal bone of most mammals. See Horse.
• INTELLECTUALIST
  1. One who overrates the importance of the understanding. Bacon. 2. One who accepts the doctrine of intellectualism.
• INTELLECT
  The part or faculty of the human soul by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; sometimes, the capacity for higher forms of knowledge, as distinguished from the power to perceive objects in their relations; the power
• CANON
  A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by ecclesiastical authority. Various canons which were made in councils held in the second
• CANONICALLY
  ; according to the canons.
• EDICT
  A public command or ordinance by the sovereign power; the proclamation of a law made by an absolute authority, as if by the very act of announcement; a decree; as, the edicts of the Roman emperors; the edicts of the French monarch. It stands as
• METHOD
  Classification; a mode or system of classifying natural objects according to certain common characteristics; as, the method of Theophrastus; the method of Ray; the Linnæan method. Syn. -- Order; system; rule; regularity; way; manner; mode; course;
• PRACTICER
  1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson.
• AWARDER
  One who awards, or assigns by sentence or judicial determination; a judge.
• INHABITATE
  To inhabit.
• UNPRUDENCE
  Imprudence.
• INSENSE
  To make to understand; to instruct. Halliwell.
• COHABITER
  A cohabitant. Hobbes.
• INHABITATIVENESS
  A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• PROTOCANONICAL
  Of or pertaining to the first canon, or that which contains the authorized collection of the books of Scripture; -- opposed to deutero-canonical.
• PROTUBERATE
  To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out. S. Sharp.
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.