Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to resolve
Participle: resolved
Gerund: resolving
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | resolve |
| you | resolve |
| he;she;it | resolves |
| we | resolve |
| you | resolve |
| they | resolve |
Perfect
| I | have resolved |
| you | have resolved |
| he;she;it | has resolved |
| we | have resolved |
| you | have resolved |
| they | have resolved |
Past
| I | resolved |
| you | resolved |
| he;she;it | resolved |
| we | resolved |
| you | resolved |
| they | resolved |
Pluperfect
| I | had resolved |
| you | had resolved |
| he;she;it | had resolved |
| we | had resolved |
| you | had resolved |
| they | had resolved |
Future
| I | will resolve |
| you | will resolve |
| he;she;it | will resolve |
| we | will resolve |
| you | will resolve |
| they | will resolve |
Future Perfect
| I | will have resolved |
| you | will have resolved |
| he;she;it | will have resolved |
| we | will have resolved |
| you | will have resolved |
| they | will have resolved |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | resolve |
| you | resolve |
| he;she;it | resolve |
| we | resolve |
| you | resolve |
| they | resolve |
Perfect
| I | have resolved |
| you | have resolved |
| he;she;it | have resolved |
| we | have resolved |
| you | have resolved |
| they | have resolved |
Imperfect
| I | resolved |
| you | resolved |
| he;she;it | resolved |
| we | resolved |
| you | resolved |
| they | resolved |
Pluperfect
| I | had resolved |
| you | had resolved |
| he;she;it | had resolved |
| we | had resolved |
| you | had resolved |
| they | had resolved |
Conditional
Present
| I | would resolve |
| you | would resolve |
| he;she;it | would resolve |
| we | would resolve |
| you | would resolve |
| they | would resolve |
Perfect
| I | would have resolved |
| you | would have resolved |
| he;she;it | would have resolved |
| we | would have resolved |
| you | would have resolved |
| they | would have resolved |
Imperative
| you | resolve |
| we | Let's resolve |
| you | resolve |
Verbs conjugated like 'resolve'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'resolve'
resole,
revolve,
absolve,
beselve,
devolve,
evolve,
exolve,
exsolve,
persolve,
reevolve,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- determine
- decide, establish, deliberate, confirm
- separate
- analyze, clear, dispel, reduce, disintegrate, disperse, scatter
- change
- transform, convert, reduce
- solve
- explain, unravel, untangle, explicate
Antonyms
- to stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination
- damn the torpedoes, decide, go big or go home, grasp the nettle, shoot first and ask questions later, shoot from the hip, shoot from the lip, shoot one's mouth off, hesitate
- determine
- hesitate, vacillate, waver, falter
- separate
- connect, combine, attach, consolidate
- change
- constancy, stability, immutability, firmness
Additional Information
Etymology
1. c.1374, from L.
resolvere "to loosen, undo, settle," from
re-, intensive prefix, +
solvere "loosen" (see solve). Same sense evolution as in
resolution. The noun meaning "determination" is first recorded 1592.
2. From Middle English resolven, from Old French resolver, a learned borrowing of Latin resolvō (“loosen, thaw, melt, resolve”), equivalent to re- + solve. Piecewise doublet of re-solve. See: Middle English '
resolven', Old French '
resolver', Latin '
resolvō'.
Verbs referencing "resolve"
Spanish
resolver, French
résolver, Cebuano resolba.
Sample Sentences
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[...] in respect of bustle, emerges from some dark stairs, and marshals my wife towards the ladies ’ cabin, to which retreat she goes, followed by a mighty bale of cloaks and great-coats. I valiantly resolve not to go to bed at all, but to walk up and down the pier till morning.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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After remaining here a couple of days I bound myself to a rigid adherence to the plan I had laid down so recently, and resolved to set forward on our western journey without any more delay. Accordingly, having reduced the luggage within the smallest possible compass (by sending back to New York, to be afterwards forwarded [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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The city presenting no objects of sufficient interest to detain us on our way, we resolved to proceed next day by another steamboat, the Fulton, and to join it, about noon, at a suburb called Portland, where it would be delayed some time in passing through a canal.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] the little lady a great deal, before he ventured on any overtures towards acquaintanceship. He knew an abundance of simple acts to propitiate and invite the approaches of the little people, and he resolved to play his part right skilfully. He could cut cunning little baskets out of cherry-stones, could make grotesque faces on hickory-nuts, or odd-jumping figures out of elder-pith, and he was a very [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] ought to go, to show the Orleans people that we don't think hardly of them, after all. He was of opinion, in fact, that southern people needed encouraging. When however, the fact that she had resolved to go was fully before the public mind, she was solemnly invited out to tea by all her friends and neighbors for the space of a fortnight, and her prospects and plans duly canvassed and inquired [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Miss Ophelia seated herself resolutely on the lately vanquished trunk, and marshalling all her goods and chattels in fine military order, seemed resolved to defend them to the last.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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The public-house was so very clean and good a one, that the managers of the jaunt resolved to return to it and put up there for the night, if possible. This course decided on, and the horses being well refreshed, we again pushed forward, and came upon the Prairie at sunset.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] time my declaration has been perfectly well known to my publishers on both sides of the Atlantic, that no consideration on earth would induce me to write one. But what I have intended, what I have resolved upon (and this is the confidence I seek to place in you ) is, on my return to England, in my own person, in my own journal, to bear, for the behoof of my countrymen, such testimony to the gigantic [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] sometimes to hear my mother reasoning cases with him,—endeavoring to excite his sympathies. He would listen to the most pathetic appeals with the most discouraging politeness and equanimity. ‘It all resolves itself into this, ’ he would say; ‘must I part with Stubbs, or keep him ? Stubbs is the soul of punctuality, honesty, and efficiency,—a thorough business hand, and as humane as the general run. We [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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The child was announced and considered in the family as Miss Ophelia's girl; and, as she was looked upon with no gracious eye in the kitchen, Miss Ophelia resolved to confine her sphere of operation and instruction chiefly to her own chamber. With a self-sacrifice which some of our readers will appreciate, she resolved, instead of comfortably making her [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)