deciding
/dɪˈsaɪ.dɪŋ/
deciding noun: the act of making a decision. Also the present participle and gerund of decide.
Noun
deciding (usually uncountable, plural decidings)
- The act of making a decision.
- She saw to my meals; but the what and the when and the how of our eating was always controlled by her own decidings.2005, Walter Wangerin Jr., Jesus: A Novel, Grand Rapids, M.I.: Zondervan, →ISBN, page 372
- By keeping the court's public work mystified and secret, the justices, like [Clarence] Thomas, denigrate how important the actual deciding of cases is to the American people.2007 November 30, Dahlia Lithwick, “Open Books”, in Slate, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2023
Adjective
deciding (comparative more deciding, superlative most deciding)
- Resulting, having resulted, or having the potential to result in a decision or conclusion.
- The cost turned out to be the deciding factor in our final choice.
- Do you know what was the deciding thing made me marry Mark Bycourt in the end? Yes: Cyril. I'm fond of boys, Mr Carrados, and I want them to have their chance in life.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries
Also used as
deciding is also the present participle and gerund of decide.
deciding meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada
deciding in Hindi
- resulting, having resulted, or having the potential to result in a decision or conclusion
- निर्णायक nirṇāyak
deciding in Tamil
- முடிவெடுப்பது, முடிவு செய்தல்
deciding in Telugu
- నిర్ణయించడం
deciding in Kannada
- ನಿರ್ಧರಿಸುವುದು
More languagesFewer languages
- deciding in Gujarati
- નિર્ણય લે છે
Examples of deciding in a sentence
- They went out and eyed the new car one last time before deciding.
- We priced a few laptops before deciding which one to buy.
- The architect drafted several iterations of the floorplan before deciding on his final design.
Forms of deciding
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | decidings |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more deciding |
| superlative | most deciding |
Phrases with deciding
Words that rhyme with deciding
- riding
- confiding
- abiding
- biding
- gliding
- guiding
- hiding
- paragliding
- sliding
- striding
- backsliding
- bestriding
31 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- betiding
- blindsiding
- briding
- broadsiding
- chiding
- coinciding
- colliding
- coresiding
- deriding
- disciding
- dividing
- eliding
- griding
- hagriding
- joyriding
- misguiding
- niding
- nondividing
- outriding
- overriding
- overstriding
- peroxiding
- presiding
- priding
- providing
- redeciding
- redividing
- residing
- siding
- subsiding
- suiciding
Questions about deciding
- What does deciding mean?
- Deciding means the act of making a decision.
- What is deciding in Hindi?
- Deciding in Hindi is निर्णायक (nirṇāyak). See Deciding meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is deciding?
- Deciding can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce deciding?
- Deciding is pronounced /dɪˈsaɪ.dɪŋ/.
- What is the plural of deciding?
- The plural of deciding is decidings.
Words near deciding in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: deciding (page history and authors); deciding (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); deciding (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); deciding (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); deciding (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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