Definition: 1. Determining or having the power to determine an outcome. 2. Unmistakable. 3. Characterized by decision and firmness. 4. Forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis.
Use 'decisive' in a sentence:
1. One party could emerge from the scrummage with a decisive victory.
2. A decisive person acts quickly and often succeeds.
3. A decisive battle is impending ( or is imminent).
4. Clark helps answer the question: "When is social choice decisive and when are the concrete characteristics of technology more important?"
5. He should give way to a younger, more decisive leader.
6. But, it's not decisive.
7. They offered opposing players bribes to fix a decisive league match against Valenciennes.
8. He was a man of decisive action and an adventurous disposition.
9. Human effort is the decisive factor.
10. Why don't you try being more decisive?
11. The meeting between Molotov, Bidault and Bevin was decisive.
12. We won the war after a decisive battle.
13. Our army defeated the enemy in that decisive battle.
14. Clark makes the point that the characteristics of a technology have a decisive influence on job skills and work organization.
15. 5 grams of radium made a decisive contribution to the success of the experiments undertaken in the years around 1930.
16. In his letter to Cabinet Office Minister David Lidington, Sir Brian Langstaff notes "the repeated calls for financial assistance which fully2 recompenses those who've suffered." He says decisive action should be taken.
17. The existence in Paris at the Radium Institute of a stock of 1.5 grams of radium made a decisive contribution to the success of the experiments undertaken in the years around 1930.
18. There is a decisive change in the whole policy.
19. He gave way to a younger, more decisive leader.
20. Your argument was the decisive one.
21. Man is a decisive factor in doing everything.
22. For previous generations, college was decisive break from parental control ； guidance and support needed to come from people of the same age and from within ．
23. Through some adroit lawyering, Faal turned that mistake to a decisive advantage.
24. The roadshow will be decisive.
25. They offered opposing players bribes to fix a decisive game.
26. The way they treat each other is decisive to the way they treat knowledge and profession.
27. Systemic innovation is a decisive factor of the economic growth.
28. They are ready to fight a decisive battle.
29. The decisive goal arrived against the run of play.
30. It was a decisive victory.
31. And among these elements, vocabulary plays a decisive role.
32. They have vowed a quick and decisive response.
33. This year is the time to secure a decisive victory in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects and achieve the goal of poverty alleviation and sense of responsibility of contemporary teachers.
34. According to one study, students' academic performance is not the only decisive factor of their stress responses.
35. Classical geology borrowed a decisive, if unspoken, premise from Newton—the independence of Earth's processes from any astronomical context.
36. Voters perceive him as a decisive and resolute international leader.
37. What was needed, he said, was decisive action to halt what he called these savage crimes.
38. This final observation seemed decisive.
39. For previous generations, college was decisive break from parental control; guidance and support needed help from people of the same age and from within.
40. The election campaign has now entered its final, decisive phase.
41. What most people want to see is determined, decisive action and firm leadership.
42. The might of the army could prove a decisive factor.
43. He is decisive and won't shrink from a fight.
44. The government must take decisive action on gun control.
45. They were outplayed by the Colombians' slick passing and decisive finishing.
46. This is a time of decisive action and quick thinking.
47. Of course, when the markets came crashing down in 2007, it was decisive government intervention that saved the day.
48. After losing this decisive battle, the general was forced to concede.
49. I work very efficiently and am decisive, and accurate in my judgement.
50. She has played a decisive role in the peace negotiations.
