decide

Other forms of decide

past tense

decided·

present participle

deciding·

third person

decides·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about decide

What does decide mean?

decide means "reach, make, or come to a decision about something". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in decide?

decide has 2 syllables: dec-ide. The stress falls on "ide". In IPA it is /ˌdɪˈsaɪd/.

What is another word for decide?

Close synonyms include make up one's mind, determine, settle, resolve, adjudicate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is decide a common word?

decide is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with decide?

46 words rhyme with decide. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.