Indecisive

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Indecisive \In`de*ci"sive\, a. [Cf. F. ind['e]cisif.]
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     1. Not decisive; not bringing to a final or ultimate issue;
        as, an indecisive battle, argument, answer.
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              The campaign had everywhere been indecisive.
                                                    --Macaulay.
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     2. Undetermined; prone to indecision; irresolute; unsettled;
        wavering; vacillating; hesitating; as, an indecisive state
        of mind; an indecisive character.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  indecisive
       adj 1: characterized by lack of decision and firmness; "an
              indecisive manager brought the enterprise to a
              standstill" [ant: {decisive}]
       2: not definitely settling something; "a long and indecisive
          war" [ant: {decisive}]
       3: not clearly defined; "indecisive boundaries running through
          mountains"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  214 Moby Thesaurus words for "indecisive":
     adrift, afloat, agnostic, aleatoric, aleatory, alternating,
     ambiguous, ambitendent, ambivalent, amorphic, amorphous, anarchic,
     at loose ends, baggy, bland, blobby, blurred, blurry, borderline,
     broad, capricious, chance, chancy, changeable, changeful, chaotic,
     characterless, confused, desultory, deviable, dicey, disordered,
     disorderly, dizzy, double-minded, doubtful, doubting, dubious,
     eccentric, equivocal, erratic, faltering, fast and loose,
     featureless, fence-sitting, fence-straddling, fickle, fitful,
     flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, foggy, formless,
     freakish, fuzzy, general, giddy, groundless, halfhearted, halting,
     hazy, hesitant, hesitating, hit-or-miss, ill-defined, impetuous,
     imprecise, impulsive, inaccurate, incalculable, inchoate,
     incoherent, inconclusive, inconsistent, inconstant, indefinable,
     indefinite, indemonstrable, indeterminable, indeterminate,
     indistinct, inexact, infirm, infirm of purpose, infirm of will,
     inform, insipid, irregular, irresolute, irresolved, irresponsible,
     kaleidoscopic, lax, loose, lumpen, mazy, mercurial, milk-and-water,
     milky, misty, moody, moot, mugwumpian, mugwumpish, mushy, mutable,
     namby-pamby, neutral, nondescript, nonspecific, not following,
     not proved, obscure, of two minds, open, orderless, polysemous,
     problematic, rambling, random, restless, roving, scatterbrained,
     shadowed forth, shadowy, shaky, shapeless, shifting, shifty,
     shilly-shallying, shuffling, skeptical, spasmodic, spineless,
     stochastic, sweeping, tasteless, tentative, tergiversating,
     touch-and-go, unaccountable, unascertained, unattested,
     unauthenticated, uncertain, uncertified, unclear, unconfirmable,
     unconfirmed, uncontrolled, unconvinced, uncorroborated, undecided,
     undefined, undemonstrated, undependable, undestined, undetermined,
     undisciplined, undivinable, unestablished, unfixed, unforeseeable,
     unfounded, unordered, unorganized, unpersuaded, unplain,
     unpredictable, unprovable, unproved, unproven, unreliable,
     unresolved, unrestrained, unsettled, unshown, unspecified,
     unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady,
     unsubstantiated, unsupported, unsupported by evidence, unsure,
     unsustained, untested, untried, unvalidated, unverifiable,
     unverified, vacillating, vagrant, vague, vapid, variable, veiled,
     vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton,
     watery, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy,
     without basis, without grounds