decided
English
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Verb
decided
- simple past and past participle of decide
Adjective
decided (comparative more decided, superlative most decided)
- Determined; resolute.
- A woman of decided opinions
- 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.
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Noun
decided (plural decideds)
- 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.