What is the synonym to the word decide

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:4.5 / 2 votes

1. decideverb

   Synonyms:
   make up ones mind, determine, choose, pick

2. decideverb

   To resolve (a contest, problem, dispute, etc.); to choose, determine, or settle.

   Synonyms:
   pick, determine, choose, make up ones mind

3. decideverb

   To make a judgment, especially after deliberation.

   Synonyms:
   make up ones mind, pick, determine, choose

4. decideverb

   To cause someone to come to a decision.

   Synonyms:
   pick, choose, determine, make up ones mind

Princeton’s WordNetRate these synonyms:3.5 / 4 votes

1. decide, make up one’s mind, determineverb

   reach, make, or come to a decision about something

   «We finally decided after lengthy deliberations»

   Synonyms:
   influence, square off, ascertain, adjudicate, see, set, watch, square up, settle, learn, determine, define, mold, resolve, specify, make up one’s mind, fix, find out, check, find, regulate, shape, limit

2. decide, settle, resolve, adjudicateverb

   bring to an end; settle conclusively

   «The case was decided»; «The judge decided the case in favor of the plaintiff»; «The father adjudicated when the sons were quarreling over their inheritance»

   Synonyms:
   settle, judge, descend, make up, patch up, nail down, sink, settle down, go down, square off, answer, solve, subside, root, determine, purpose, steady down, go under, conclude, reconcile, fall, finalise, ensconce, dissolve, get back, adjudicate, conciliate, make up one’s mind, square up, resolve, locate, break up, try, finalize, take root

3. decideverb

   cause to decide

   «This new development finally decided me!»

   Synonyms:
   make up one’s mind, resolve, determine, settle, adjudicate

4. decideverb

   influence or determine

   «The vote in New Hampshire often decides the outcome of the Presidential election»

   Synonyms:
   make up one’s mind, resolve, determine, settle, adjudicate

Matched Categories

1. • Determine
   • End
   • Induce

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for «decide»:

   deciding, determine, decides, choose, decided, decision, determining, decisions, opt, resolve, adjudicate, identify

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How to use decide in a sentence?

1. Nick Lane:

   Space missions have found evidence that icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn might also have similarly alkaline hydrothermal vents in their seas, while we have never seen any evidence of life on those moons, if we want to find life on other planets or moons, studies like ours can help us decide where to look.

2. Hillary Clinton:

   I debated a lot in 2008 and I would certainly be there with lots of enthusiasm and energy if (the DNC) decide to add more debates, and I think that’s the message a lot of people are sending their way.

3. Ted Cruz:

   We are likely to have a battle in Cleveland to decide who is the nominee, if you don’t want to see Donald Trump as the nominee, … then I ask you to please vote for the men and women on this slate.

4. Tim Kaine:

   Let’s get the story out on the table first and see what everybody’s part of this problem was, to fix it going forward, and then we can decide about accountability.

5. Hillary Clinton:

   Everything I did was permitted, there was no law, there was no regulation, there was nothing that did not give me the full authority to decide how I as going to communicate.

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