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Determined

adjective

1.

Characterized by great determination.

2.

Having been learned or found or determined especially by investigation.

3.

Devoting full strength and concentrated attention to.

4.

Determined or decided upon as by an authority. Synonyms: dictated, set. "The dictated terms of surrender" , "The time set for the launching"

5.

Strongly motivated to succeed. Synonyms: compulsive, driven.

Determine

verb

(past & past part. determined; pres. part. determining)

1.

Establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study. Synonyms: ascertain, find, find out. "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize"

2.

Shape or influence; give direction to. Synonyms: influence, mold, regulate, shape. "Mold public opinion"

3.

Fix conclusively or authoritatively. Synonym: set.

4.

Decide upon or fix definitely. Synonyms: define, fix, limit, set, specify. "Specify the parameters"

5.

Reach, make, or come to a decision about something. Synonyms: decide, make up one's mind.

6.

Fix in scope; fix the boundaries of.

7.

Settle conclusively; come to terms. Synonyms: settle, square off, square up.

8.

Find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort. Synonyms: ascertain, check, find out, learn, see, watch. "See whether it works" , "Find out if he speaks Russian" , "Check whether the train leaves on time"

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"Determined" Quotes from Famous Books

... who are equal to the difficulties of future war, come to conclusions expressed in almost the same terms. Recently General de Negrier, after having insisted that physical exhaustion determined by the nervous tension of the soldier, increased in surprising proportions according to the invisibility of the adversary, ...

— Battle Studies • Colonel Charles-Jean-Jacques-Joseph Ardant du Picq

... become cold and the fore part of the jam seemed frozen into a solid mass. He determined to risk a crossing. Strapping everything tightly on the sleigh, he called to the dogs. They were frightened and he had to lick them to get them started. Four or five times on the way across he thought they were lost, but they finally ...

— Bob Hunt in Canada • George W. Orton

... in his face. Like the rest of us I had always set this fellow down as a mere poltroon and windbag, a blower of his own trumpet, as Oliver had called him. Now I got an insight into his real nature which showed me that although he might be these things and worse, he was also a very determined and dangerous person, animated by ambitions which he meant to satisfy at ...

— Queen Sheba's Ring • H. Rider Haggard

... from Ziska which she had taken from him. Her father had pleaded sorely to be allowed to keep the notes. In her emotion at the moment she had been imperative with him, and her resolution had prevailed. But she thought of his entreaties as she returned home, and of his poverty and wants, and she determined that the necklace should go. It would produce for her at any rate as much as Ziska had given. She wished that she had brought it with her, as she passed the open door of a certain pawnbroker, which she had entered often during the last six months, and whither she intended to take her treasure, ...

— Nina Balatka • Anthony Trollope

... masterpiece of the subtlest political irony, purported to issue from King Philip's mouth, and it sounds amusing enough to read in this paper, that the gloomy dunce in the Escurial, after mature deliberation with his dear and faithful cousin, William of Orange, has determined to found a freeschool and university, from motives, which could not fail to seem abominable to ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

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