indecisive

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: in=de=ci=sive

CIDE DICTIONARY

indecisive, a. [Cf. F. indécisif.].

•  Not decisive; not bringing to a final or ultimate issue; as, an indecisive battle, argument, answer.  [1913 Webster]

  "The campaign had everywhere been indecisive."  [1913 Webster]
•  Undetermined; prone to indecision; irresolute; unsettled; wavering; vacillating; hesitating; as, an indecisive state of mind; an indecisive character.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

indecisive, adj.
1 not decisive.
2 undecided, hesitating.

Derivative

indecisively adv. indecisiveness n.

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

indecisive

Uncertainty

N uncertainty, incertitude, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubitation, dubitancy, dubitousness, hesitation, suspense, perplexity, embarrassment, dilemma, bewilderment, timidity, vacillation, diaporesis, indetermination, vagueness, haze, fog, obscurity, ambiguity, contingency, dependence, dependency, double contingency, possibility upon a possibility, open question, onus probandi, blind bargain, pig in a poke, leap in the dark, something or other, needle in a haystack, needle in a bottle of hay, roving commission, precariousness, fallibility, uncertain, casual, random, changeable, doubtful, dubious, indecisive, unsettled, undecided, undetermined, in suspense, open to discussion, controvertible, in question, vague, indeterminate, indefinite, ambiguous, equivocal, undefined, undefinable, confused, mystic, oracular, dazed, perplexing, enigmatic, paradoxical, apocryphal, problematical, hypothetical, experimental, unpredictable, unforeseeable (unknowable), fallible, questionable, precarious, slippery, ticklish, debatable, disputable, unreliable, untrustworthy, contingent, contingent on, dependent on, subject to, dependent on circumstances, occasional, provisional, unauthentic, unauthenticated, unauthoritative, unascertained, unconfirmed, undemonstrated, untold, uncounted, in a state of uncertainty, in a cloud, in a maze, bushed, off the track, ignorant, afraid to say, out of one's reckoning, astray, adrift, at sea, at fault, at a loss, at one's wit's end, at a nonplus, puzzled, lost, abroad, d_esorient_e, distracted, distraught, pendente lite, sub spe rati, Heaven knows, who can tell? who shall decide when doctors disagr.