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undecided

adj
/ˌʌndɪˈsaɪ̯.dɪd/

Etymology

From Middle English undecided, equivalent to un- + decided.

  1. inherited from undecided

Definitions

  1. Open and not yet settled or determined.

    • The question of man's destiny is still undecided.

  2. Uncommitted, not having reached a decision.

    • The result of the election is in doubt because of a large number of undecided voters.
    • Perot was witty and comfortable in his own skin, which I thought would reassure his supporters and perhaps sway some of the undecided voters.

  3. A voter etc. who has not yet come to a decision.

    • The real drama came as these two camps fought for undecideds, who literally found themselves in the middle.
    • […] but that is a highly flawed procedure if the undecideds differ in major ways from the decideds.
    • “Independents opposed the bill by around a 3-to-1 margin … The KFF and Fox News polls – the ones with the fewest undecideds – showed 7 in 10 independents opposed it,” Blake wrote.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. simple past and past participle of undecide

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at undecided. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at undecided. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at undecided

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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