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determined

adjectiveverbcommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//dɪˈtɜːmɪnd//
  • United States//dɪˈtɝmɪnd//

Decided; resolute, possessing much determination; dogged.

adjective

  1. 1

    Decided; resolute, possessing much determination; dogged.

    I'm determined to get a good grade on my exam.

    Shortly after midnight a determined attempt was made to wreck a portion of Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-on-Avon, by means of an explosive bomb.

    The result of this is that today in most parts of the Western World even the most determined opponents of socialism derive from socialist sources their knowledge on most subjects on which they have no firsthand information.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of determinesimple past and past participle of determine

Forms

comparative
more determined
superlative
most determined
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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