undecided
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English undecided, equivalent to un- + decided.
Adjective[edit]
undecided (comparative more undecided, superlative most undecided)
- Open and not yet settled or determined.
- Synonyms: indeterminate, unresolved, unsettled, indecisive
- The question of man's destiny is still undecided.
- Uncommitted, not having reached a decision.
- Synonyms: ambivalent, irresolute, of two minds, indecisive, unsure
- The result of the election is in doubt because of a large number of undecided voters.
Translations[edit]
open and not yet settled or determined
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uncommitted, not having reached a decision
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Noun[edit]
undecided (plural undecideds)
- A voter etc. who has not yet come to a decision.
- 2008 February 17, Jennifer Finney Boylan, “At the Maine Caucuses, a Tough Nut to Crack”, in New York Times[1]:
- The real drama came as these two camps fought for undecideds, who literally found themselves in the middle.
- 2016, Herb Asher, Polling and the Public: What Every Citizen Should Know:
- […] but that is a highly flawed procedure if the undecideds differ in major ways from the decideds.
Verb[edit]
undecided
- simple past and past participle of undecide