Decision

Noun

 * 1) A choice or judgement.
 * 2) Firmness of conviction.
 * 3)  A result arrived at by the judges when there is no clear winner at the end of the contest.

Adjectives for Decision
favorable; comforting; sagacious; well-considered; careful; correct; perfect; practical; magnanimous; sensible; unfettered unbought; accurate; straightforward; just calm; temperate; final; irreparable; irrevocable; invincible; expectant; inexorable peremptory; sweeping; important; resolute unflinching; firm; unmistakable; unalter able; unchanged; authoritative; unbiased weighty; momentous; august; arbitrary vacillating; haphazard; premature; abrupt precipitate; rapid; instant; hasty; intuitive; quick; swift; hair-trigger; dangerous desperate; ruinous; illegal; adverse; judi cial; critical; temporal; ticklish; major iniquitous; unanimous; last-moment; applauded; perplexing; tactical; controlling definite;  profitless; cryptic; tentative overt; successive; prompt; emphatic; due unbalanced; disastrous; solemn; demurred spectacular; supreme; indolent; instant practical; ruling; belated; blamable; strict impartial; theoretical; calculated; epoch making; heart-searching; resolute; sudden daring; executive; tremendous; resounding academic; unwise; crushing; initiatory technical; adverse; political; rumored sundry (plural).

Verbs for Decision
abide by—; accept—; acclaim—; adhere to—; analyze—; circumvent—; confirm— contest—; dictate—; enforce—; execute— greet—; hail—; hand down—; influence— obey—; prejudice—; reach—; render—; reverse—; stiffen—; subject to—; submit to—; swing—; voice—; weigh—; —embroils ; —favors; —foreshadows; -invalidates; —takes place; —wavers.

Synonyms for Decision
determination, conclusion, outcome, result, verdict, finding, judgment, resolution.

Antonyms for Decision
vacillation, procrastination, delay, deferment, postponement, indetermination, indefiniteness.

Derived terms
decision making, decision tree, decision procedure, decision theory, indecision,

Thesaurus
decide, decisive, accommodation, accord, acquittal, action, adjustment, agreement, alternativity, animus, appetence, appetency, appetite, arbitration, arrangement, award, backbone, choice, choosing, co-optation, co-option, command, commitment, compromise, conation, conatus, conclusion, condemnation, consideration, decidedness, decisiveness, decree, dedication, definiteness, deliverance, desire, determinateness, determination, determinedness, devotion, diagnosis, dictum, discretion, disposition, doggedness, doom, earnestness, election, fancy, finding, firmness, first choice, fortitude, free choice, free will, grit, inclination, intention, judgement, judgment, landmark decision, liking, lust, mind, objective, obstinacy, order, outcome, passion, penalty, perseverance, persistence, pick, pleasure, pluck, precedent, preference, preoption, prognosis, pronouncement, purpose, purposefulness, reconciliation, relentlessness, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, resolvedness, resolving, ruling, selection, self-will, sentence, seriousness, settlement, settling, sexual desire, sincerity, single-mindedness, steadfastness, stubbornness, tenacity, the pick, total commitment, understanding, velleity, verdict, volition, will, will power, wish

Etymology
From, in turn from decisio:, decisionis:, from decido:.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Basque: erabaki
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: beslutning
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:


 * Irish:
 * Italian: decisione
 * Japanese:, 決断
 * Kurdish: بڕیار
 * Latvian: lēmums, apņemšanās
 * Lithuanian: sprendimas, nutarimas
 * Maltese: deċiżjoni
 * Middle French:
 * Polish:
 * Romanian: decizie
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Roman: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Basque: erabaki
 * Bulgarian: решителност
 * Czech:
 * Danish: beslutsomhed
 * Dutch: ,


 * Finnish:
 * Polish:
 * Romanian: hotărâre, fermitate
 * Swedish:


 * Basque: erabaki, epai, ebazpen
 * Bulgarian: по точки
 * Czech:
 * Danish: afgørelse
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:


 * Greek: (του διαιτητή)
 * Irish: ,
 * Latvian: spriedums
 * Lithuanian: nutartis, sprendimas
 * Romanian: sentință, hotărâre, verdict

Etymology
From, see above