different between decisive vs unmistakable

English

Etymology

From Middle French décisif

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??sa?s?v/
• Rhymes: -a?s?v

Adjective

decisive (comparative more decisive, superlative most decisive)

1. Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive.

   A decisive battle is fatal for one side's war chances

   A decisive vote
2. Marked by promptness and decision.

   A noble instance of this attribute of the decisive character. -J. Foster.

Synonyms

• decided
• positive
• conclusive

Antonyms

• indecisive

Derived terms

• decisively
• decisiveness

Related terms

• decidable
• decided

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References

• decisive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

• decisive in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• iDevices

Italian

Adjective

decisive

1. feminine plural of decisivo

English

Alternative forms

• unmistakeable

Etymology

un- +? mistake +? -able

Pronunciation

Adjective

unmistakable (comparative more unmistakable, superlative most unmistakable)

1. Unique, such that it cannot be mistaken for something else.

   Antonym: mistakable

   • 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter X

     Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable.

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