deciding

1. 1.

   having the power or quality of deciding

   “the crucial experiment”

   “cast the deciding vote”

   “the determinative (or determinant) battle”

   Synonymsdeterminantdeterminativedetermining

   Similardecisive

Other forms of deciding

plural

decidings·

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 deciding

What does deciding mean?

deciding means "the cognitive process of reaching a decision". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in deciding?

deciding has 3 syllables: dec-i-ding. The stress falls on "i". In IPA it is /ˌdɪˈsaɪdɪŋ/.

What is another word for deciding?

Close synonyms include decision making, determinant, determinative, determining. 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 deciding a common word?

deciding is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 deciding?

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