Usage Note
Decisivamente modifies a verb or adjective to indicate that something happens in a decisive, determined manner — actuó decisivamente (acted decisively). It is formal and more common in written registers. In everyday speech, de manera decisiva or simply con decisión is often preferred.
Examples
"El árbitro intervino decisivamente en el conflicto."
Natural Translation
The referee intervened decisively in the conflict.
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