INDECISIVELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does indecisively mean? 

• INDECISIVELY (adverb)
  The adverb INDECISIVELY has 2 senses:

1. lacking firmness or resoluteness

2. without finality; inconclusively

  Familiarity information: INDECISIVELY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDECISIVELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lacking firmness or resoluteness

Context example:

'I don't know,' he said indecisively

Antonym:

decisively (with firmness)

Pertainym:

indecisive (characterized by lack of decision and firmness)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Without finality; inconclusively

Context example:

the battle ended indecisively; neither side had clearly won but neither side admitted defeat

Antonym:

decisively (with finality; conclusively)

Pertainym:

indecisive (not definitely settling something)

 Context examples 

And then came that disconcerting ride. We hadn't reached West Egg village before Gatsby began leaving his elegant sentences unfinished and slapping himself indecisively on the knee of his caramel-colored suit.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)