indecisive
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
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
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Indecisive \In`de*ci"sive\, a. [Cf. F. ind['e]cisif.]
[1913 Webster]
1. Not decisive; not bringing to a final or ultimate issue;
as, an indecisive battle, argument, answer.
[1913 Webster]
The campaign had everywhere been indecisive.
--Macaulay.
[1913 Webster]
2. Undetermined; prone to indecision; irresolute; unsettled;
wavering; vacillating; hesitating; as, an indecisive state
of mind; an indecisive character.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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