Contextualizebeta

indecisively

adv

Etymology

From indecisive + -ly.

  1. derived from dēcīdere
  2. derived from decider
  3. inherited from deciden
  4. suffixed as decisive — “decide + ive”
  5. prefixed as indecisive — “in + decisive”
  6. suffixed as indecisively — “indecisive + -ly”

Definitions

  1. In an indecisive manner.

    • I stood there indecisively for a few minutes. Then I turned east, Londonwards.
    • Amid criticism that it was acting too slowly and indecisively in the face of disaster, TEPCO flooded three of its unstable reactors with water. It continues to do so while efforts continue towards long-term recovery.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for indecisively. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA