Decide Decided Dɪˈsaɪd I Verb Do—You'll Word Adjective

• it's up to you to decide.
• you will have to decide soon.
• i can't tell you what to do—you'll have to decide for yourself.
• we've decided not to go away after all.

decide

Word Family

• decide verb
• decision noun (≠ indecision)
• decisive adjective (≠ indecisive)
• undecided adjective

Verb Forms

1. to think carefully about the different possibilities that are available and choose one of them
• It's up to you to decide.
• You will have to decide soon.
• I can't tell you what to do—you'll have to decide for yourself.
• We've decided not to go away after all.
• Why did you decide to look for a new job?
• She gave up politics and decided instead to focus on charity work.
• The government has already decided that the law needs to be changed.
• She decided that she wanted to live in France.
• You have the right to decide what you want to do.
• I can't decide what to wear.
• She couldn’t decide whether he was telling the truth or not.
• It was difficult to decide between the two candidates.
• She finally decided against a career in medicine.
• They decided against taking legal action.
• Sales figures will ultimately decide the future of these types of games.
• We might be hiring more people but nothing has been decided yet.
• The venue for the concert has yet to be decided.
• It was decided that the school should purchase new software.

Extra Examples

• You choose—I can't decide.
• It's time to decide whether you want to continue.
• We've reluctantly decided to sell the house.
• They had unanimously decided to go with the captain's plan.
• The exact time of the meeting is still to be decided.
• They decided in favour of reducing the fees.
2. to make an official or legal judgement
• The case will be decided by a jury.
• The Appeal Court decided in their favour.
• It is always possible that the judge may decide against you.
• He challenged her right as governor to decide on the matter.
3. to affect the result of something
• A mixture of skill and good luck decided the outcome of the game.
• A number of factors decide whether a movie will be successful or not.
4. to be the reason why somebody does something
• For most customers, price is the deciding factor.
• They offered me free accommodation for a year, and that decided me.
• That decided it for me: I wasn't carrying my bike back up those stairs.

Word Origin

• late Middle English (in the sense ‘bring to a settlement’): from French décider, from Latin decidere ‘determine’, from de- ‘off’ + caedere ‘cut’.