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DETERMINED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Strongly motivated to succeed
Synonyms:
compulsive; determined; driven
Classified under:
Similar:
ambitious (having a strong desire for success or achievement)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having been learned or found or determined especially by investigation
Classified under:
Similar:
ascertained; discovered; observed (discovered or determined by scientific observation)
Antonym:
undetermined (not yet having been ascertained or determined)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Characterized by great determination
Example:
a struggle against a determined enemy
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
resolute (firm in purpose or belief; characterized by firmness and determination)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Determined or decided upon as by an authority
Example:
the time set for the launching
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
settled (established or decided beyond dispute or doubt)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Devoting full strength and concentrated attention to
Example:
made continued and determined efforts to find and destroy enemy headquarters
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
obstinate; stubborn; unregenerate (tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb determine
Context examples:
Having therefore consulted with my wife, and some of my acquaintance, I determined to go again to sea.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I had determined and was convinced that I could and ought.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
From the first I had determined that I would myself preside over your investigation.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Amy bridled up at this insult, and determined to find out the secret, if she teased for an hour.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
It determined him to leave Lyme, and await her complete recovery elsewhere.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
I resolved to set this right beyond all doubt;—if such a barrier were between us, to break it down at once with a determined hand.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He perceived and determined and responded in the same instant.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Sir William and Lady Lucas are determined to go, merely on that account, for in general, you know, they visit no newcomers.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
A myriad laws governed all these things and determined conduct; yet he did not know the speech of the gods, nor was there any way for him to learn save by experience.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
They inventoried the required resources, then determined the economic and environmental effects of using those resources — defined in terms of energy available and expended, and normalized to cost in U.S. dollars.
(Corn better used as food than biofuel, National Science Foundation)
