Definition of "decisive" []

• Having the power to decide; conclusive. (adjective)
• Characterized by decision and firmness; resolute. (adjective)
• Beyond doubt; unmistakable: a decisive defeat. (adjective)

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• "SESAY: The Iraqi prime minister has announces what he calls a decisive offensive in the northern city of Mosul."
• "Meditating on the deep meaning of the Cross, Sanneh came to what he describes as a decisive conclusion: Suffering is not alien to the nature of God, as his Islamic teachers had insisted, but is at the heart of God's compassion."
• "U. S.-led forces there say they are planning what they call decisive operations to reclaim two southern Afghan towns recently captured by Taliban."