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  • 1.2 Verb
  • 1.3 Adjective
    * 1.3.1 Antonyms
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  • 1.4 Noun

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• (weak vowel distinction) IPA(key): /dɪˈsaɪ̯.dɪd/, /diˈsaɪ̯.dɪd/
  • • (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /dəˈsaɪ.dəd/
• Hyphenation: de‧ci‧ded

decided

1. simple past and past participle of decide

decided (comparative more decided, superlative most decided)

1. Determined; resolute.
   A woman of decided opinions
2. Clear; unmistakable, definite, unquestionable.
   It was a decided victory.
   There was a decided ugliness to the patch of waste ground.
   • 1954 November, “Train Arrival Indicators at Euston”, in Railway Magazine, page 738:
     The visual indicators are a decided improvement, and have reduced the telephoning by the staff in the signalbox.

• undecided

• decidedly

• decidedness

• predecided

• underdecided

• Bulgarian: решителен (bg) (rešitelen)

• French: décidé (fr)

• German: entschieden (de)

• Spanish: decidido (es)

decided (plural decideds)

1. A voter etc. who has reached their decision.
   • 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.

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