Decisive vs Noncommittal - What's the difference?
decisive | noncommittal |
Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive.
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Marked by promptness and decision.
Tending to avoid commitment; lacking certainty or decisiveness; reluctant to give out information or show one's feelings or opinion.
*1818 , S.R. Wells, The American Phrenonological Journal, and other miscellany , v. 10,
*:[He] is candid, open-hearted, and hardly non-commmittal enough for his own interest at times.
As adjectives the difference between decisive and noncommittal
is that decisive is while noncommittal is tending to avoid commitment; lacking certainty or decisiveness; reluctant to give out information or show one's feelings or opinion.decisive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- ''A decisive battle is fatal for one side's war chances
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- A noble instance of this attribute of the decisive character. -J. Foster.
Synonyms
* decided * positive * conclusiveAntonyms
* indecisiveDerived terms
* decisively * decisivenessReferences
* (Webster 1913) * ----noncommittal
English
Alternative forms
* non-commital * noncommital * non-committalAdjective
(en adjective)- The Major's face was noncommittal .
- The noncommittal Indians would give no counsel as to fording.
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