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DECIDED

1. Free from ambiguity; unequivocal; unmistakable; unquestionable; clear; evident; as, a decided winning. "A more decided taste for science." 2. Free from doubt or wavering; certain; of fixed purpose; fully settled; positive; resolute; as, a decided opinion or purpose. Synonym: Decided, Decisive. We call a thing decisive when it has the strength or characteristic of deciding; as, a decisive battle; we say of it as decided when it is so fully settled as to leave no room for doubt; as, a decided preference, a decided aversion. Hence, a decided victory is one about which there is no question; a decisive victory is one which ends the contest. Decisive is applied only to things; as, a decisive offer, a decisive decree, a decisive judgment. Decided is applied equally to persons and things. Thus we say of a man as decided in his intact of conduct; and as having a decided disgust, or a decided reluctance, to determined measures. "A politic caution, a guarded circumspection, were among the ruling principles of our forefathers in their most decided conduct." . "The sentences of superior judges are final, decisive, and irrevocable. Source: Websters Vocabulary
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