Synonyms of the word decision


DECISIONCHOICE - CONCLUSION - DECISIVENESS - DETERMINATION - FIRMNESS - JUDGEMENT - JUDGMENT - MIND - OPTION - OUTCOME - PICK - RESOLUTENESS - RESOLUTION - RESOLVE - RESULT - RESULTANT - SELECTION - TERMINATION

decision

  • n. The act of deciding.
  • n. A choice or judgement.
  • n. (uncountable) Firmness of conviction.
  • n. (chiefly combat sports) A result arrived at by the judges when there is no clear winner at the end of…
  • n. (baseball) A win or a loss awarded to a pitcher.
  • v. (boxing) To defeat an opponent by a decision of the judges, rather than by a knockout.

choice

  • n. An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something.
  • n. One selection or preference; that which is chosen or decided; the outcome of a decision.
  • n. Anything that can be chosen.
  • n. (usually with the) The best or most preferable part.
  • n. (obsolete) Care and judgement in selecting; discrimination, selectiveness.
  • n. (obsolete) A sufficient number to choose among.
  • adj. Especially good or preferred.
  • adj. (slang, New Zealand) Cool; excellent.
  • adj. (obsolete) Careful in choosing; discriminating.

conclusion

  • n. The end, finish, close or last part of something.
  • n. The outcome or result of a process or act.
  • n. A decision reached after careful thought.
  • n. (logic) In an argument or syllogism, the proposition that follows as a necessary consequence of the premises.
  • n. (obsolete) An experiment, or something from which a conclusion may be drawn.
  • n. (law) The end or close of a pleading, e.g. the formal ending of an indictment, "against the peace", etc.
  • n. (law) An estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position.

decisiveness

  • n. The state or quality of being decisive.

determination

  • n. The act of determining, or the state of being determined.
  • n. Bringing to an end; termination; limit.
  • n. Direction or tendency to a certain end; impulsion.
  • n. The quality of mind which reaches definite conclusions; decision of character; resoluteness.
  • n. (countable) The state of decision; a judicial decision, or ending of controversy.
  • n. (countable) That which is determined upon; result of deliberation; purpose; conclusion formed; fixed resolution.
  • n. A flow, rush, or tendency to a particular part.
  • n. (countable) The act, process, or result of any accurate measurement, as of length, volume, weight, intensity,…
  • n. The act of defining a concept or notion by giving its essential constituents.
  • n. The addition of a distinguishing featureto a concept or notion, thus limiting its extent; -- the opposite…
  • n. The act of determining the relations of an object, such as genus and species; the referring of minerals,…

firmness

  • n. The state of being firm; strength; permanence; stability; hardness; resolution.

judgement

  • n. Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa spelling of judgment. Sometimes found in the…

judgment

  • n. The act of judging.
  • n. The power or faculty of performing such operations; especially, when unqualified, the faculty of judging…
  • n. The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.
  • n. (law) The act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice; also, the determination,…
  • n. (theology) The final award; the last sentence.

mind

  • n. The ability for rational thought.
  • n. The ability to be aware of things.
  • n. The ability to remember things.
  • n. The ability to focus the thoughts.
  • n. Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.
  • n. Judgment, opinion, or view.
  • n. Desire, inclination, or intention.
  • n. A healthy mental state.
  • n. (philosophy) The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity,…
  • v. (now regional) To remember.
  • v. (now rare except in phrases) To concern oneself with, to pay attention to.
  • v. (originally and chiefly in negative or interrogative constructions) To dislike, to object to; to be bothered…
  • v. (now chiefly Canada, US, Ireland) To pay attention to; to listen attentively to, to obey.
  • v. To pay attention to (something); to keep one's mind on.
  • v. To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time.
  • v. (chiefly in the imperative) To make sure, to take care (that).
  • v. To be careful about.
  • v. (obsolete) To have in mind; to intend.
  • v. (obsolete) To put in mind; to remind.

option

  • n. One of a set of choices that can be made.
  • n. The freedom or right to choose.
  • n. (finance, law) A contract giving the holder the right to buy or sell an asset at a set strike price; can…
  • n. (graphical user interface) A button on a screen used to select an action (often "menu option").
  • v. To purchase an option on something.
  • v. (computing, dated) To configure, by setting an option.

outcome

  • n. That which is produced or occurs as a result of an event or process.
  • n. (probability theory) The result of a random trial. An element of a sample space.
  • n. (education) The results or evidence of students' learning experience. Often used in place of desired outcomes.
  • n. (chiefly sports) The scoreline; the result.

pick

  • n. A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
  • n. A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
  • n. A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
  • n. A choice; ability to choose.
  • n. That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
  • n. (basketball) A screen.
  • n. (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
  • n. (American football) An interception.
  • n. (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
  • n. (baseball) A pickoff.
  • n. (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
  • n. A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
  • n. (obsolete) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
  • n. (printing, dated) A particle of ink or paper embedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face,…
  • n. (art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
  • n. (weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute);…
  • v. To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
  • v. To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached;…
  • v. To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
  • v. To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
  • v. To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
  • v. To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
  • v. (cricket) To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand…
  • v. (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
  • v. To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
  • v. To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
  • v. To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
  • v. To steal; to pilfer.
  • v. (obsolete) To throw; to pitch.
  • v. (dated) To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed…
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.

resoluteness

  • n. The state or characteristic of being resolute; determination or resolution.

resolution

  • n. A strong will, determination.
  • n. The state of being resolute.
  • n. A statement of intent, a vow.
  • n. The act of discerning detail.
  • n. (computing, photography) The degree of fineness with which an image can be recorded or produced, often…
  • n. (computing) The number of pixels in an image being stored or displayed.
  • n. (computing) The process of determining the meaning of a symbol or address; lookup.
  • n. (mathematics) The act or process of solving; solution.
  • n. A formal statement adopted by an assembly, or during any other formal meeting.
  • n. (sciences) The separation of the constituent parts (of a spectrum etc).
  • n. (sciences) The degree of fineness of such a separation.
  • n. (music) Progression from dissonance to consonance; a chord to which such progression is made.
  • n. The moment in which the conflict ends and the outcome of the action is clear.
  • n. (medicine) In a pathological process, the phase during which pathogens and damaged tissues are removed…

resolve

  • v. (transitive) To find a solution to (a problem).
  • v. (transitive) To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain.
  • v. (transitive) To solve again.
  • v. (intransitive) To make a firm decision to do something.
  • v. (transitive) To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle.
  • v. To come to an agreement or make peace; patch up relationship, settle differences, bury the hatchet.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To break down into constituent parts; to decompose; to disintegrate;…
  • v. To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.
  • v. (music) To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance.
  • v. (computing) To find the IP address of a hostname, or the entity referred to by a symbol in source code;…
  • v. (rare, transitive) To melt; to dissolve; to liquefy or soften (a solid).
  • v. (rare, intransitive, reflexive) To melt; to dissolve; to become liquid.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To liquefy (a gas or vapour).
  • v. (medicine, dated) To disperse or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumour.
  • v. (obsolete) To relax; to lay at ease.
  • v. (chemistry) To separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers.
  • n. Determination, will power.

result

  • v. To proceed, spring up or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, combination of circumstances,…
  • v. To come out, or have an issue; to terminate; to have consequences; followed by in.
  • v. (law) To return to the proprietor (or heirs) after a reversion.
  • v. (obsolete) To leap back; to rebound.
  • n. That which results; the conclusion or end to which any course or condition of things leads, or which is…
  • n. The fruit, beneficial or tangible effect(s) achieved by effort.
  • n. The decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly; a resolve; a decree.
  • n. (obsolete) A flying back; resilience.
  • n. (sports) The final score in a game.
  • n. (by extension) A positive or favourable outcome for someone.
  • interj. (Britain) An exclamation of joy following a favorable outcome.

resultant

  • adj. following as a result or consequence of something.
  • n. anything that results from something else; an outcome.
  • n. (mathematics) a vector that is the vector sum of multiple vectors.

selection

  • n. The process or act of selecting.
  • n. Something selected.
  • n. A variety of items taken from a larger collection.
  • n. A musical piece.
  • n. (databases) A set of data obtained from a database using a query.

termination

  • n. The process of terminating or the state of being terminated.
  • n. The process of firing an employee; ending one's employment at a business for any reason.
  • n. An end in time; a conclusion.
  • n. An end in space; an edge or limit.
  • n. An outcome or result.
  • n. The last part of a word; an ending, a desinence; a suffix.
  • n. (medicine) An induced abortion.
  • n. (obsolete, rare) A word, a term.
  • n. The ending up of a polypeptid chain.

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