"തീരുമാനമായി" എന്ന വാക്കിന്റെ നിഘണ്ടു അർത്ഥം: വ്യക്തവും കൃത്യവുമായ രീതിയിൽ; ചോദ്യമോ സംശയമോ കൂടാതെ; തെറ്റുകൂടാതെ. ഒരു പ്രസ്താവനയോ പ്രവൃത്തിയോ ചെയ്യുന്ന ഉറപ്പിനെയോ ബോധ്യത്തെയോ ഊന്നിപ്പറയാൻ ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്ന ഒരു ക്രിയാവിശേഷണമാണിത്.
1. Feeling decidedly better, he laughed and joked with the rest of them, until afternoon deepened, and evening began.
2. The wind grew decidedly calmer, and happily the sea fell with it.
3. They looked decidedly sharp, the tips so fine they were almost invisible.
4. After several more minutes of swooping dives and climbs, Tarkyn was feeling decidedly queasy.
5. Yet, strange to say, I beheld vast level regions of a character decidedly alluvial, although by far the greater portion of the hemisphere in sight was covered with innumerable volcanic mountains, conical in shape, and having more the appearance of artificial than of natural protuberance.
6. I am not now writing a treatise, but simply prefacing a somewhat peculiar narrative by observations very much at random I will, therefore, take occasion to assert that the higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess.
7. Our own opinion is decidedly in favor of this supposition.
8. Aline strolled next to them, decidedly unmoved by the painting.
9. When he recovered from a coma seven weeks later, he was no longer an oddball but decidedly weird.
10. She gave them a withering look and turned back, but as she did, she felt something disturb the air behind her and smelt a decidedly fetid odour that took away her appetite.