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Resolved   /rizˈɑlvd/   Listen
Resolved

adjective
1.
Determined.  Synonym: single-minded.  "Single-minded in his determination to stop smoking"
2.
Explained or answered.  Synonym: solved.



Resolve

verb
(past & past part. resolved; pres. part. resolving)
1.
Bring to an end; settle conclusively.  Synonyms: adjudicate, decide, settle.  "The judge decided the case in favor of the plaintiff" , "The father adjudicated when the sons were quarreling over their inheritance"
2.
Reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation.  Synonym: conclude.
3.
Reach a decision.  Synonym: purpose.
4.
Understand the meaning of.  Synonym: answer.
5.
Make clearly visible.
6.
Find the solution.  Synonym: solve.  "Solve for x"
7.
Cause to go into a solution.  Synonyms: break up, dissolve.



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"Resolved" Quotes from Famous Books



... tenderness towards womanhood, which, looking to the sweet and loving disposition of the man, one might otherwise have expected to find in it. That he was no common boy we may be very sure, even if this were not manifest from the fact that his father resolved to give him a higher education than was to be obtained under a provincial schoolmaster. With this view, although little able to afford the expense, he took his son, when about twelve years old, to Rome, and ...
— Horace • Theodore Martin

... thoughts, and dull melancholy, That stick like burrs to the brain, will they ne'er leave me? Some men are full of choler, when they are drunk; Some brawl of matter foreign to themselves; And some, the most resolved fools of all, Have told their dearest secrets in ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb IV - Poems and Plays • Charles and Mary Lamb

... must have dreamed it all. It was about eight o'clock in the evening: she was passing down Quaker Row, and Miss Jane called and asked her to come in. Miss Jane's cheeks were flushed, and she spoke fast, as if she had resolved to say something, and thought the sooner it was ...
— What Katy Did At School • Susan Coolidge

... suggested Barlow. Mrs. Alger stopped fanning herself with her newspaper, and looked at him. Upon her motion, the other ladies looked at Barlow. Doubtless he felt that his social acceptability had ceased with his immediate usefulness. But he appeared resolved to carry it off easily. "Well," he said, "I suppose I must go ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... depraved career, but it was too late. Seneca had, by usury and legacy-hunting, amassed one of those large fortunes of which so many instances are met with in Roman history; feeling the dangers of wealth, he offered his property to Nero, who refused it, but resolved to rid himself of his former tutor, and easily found a pretext for his destruction. In adversity the character of Seneca shone with brighter lustre. Though he had lived ill, he could die well. He met the messengers of death without trembling. His noble wife, Paulina, determined to die with ...
— Handbook of Universal Literature - From The Best and Latest Authorities • Anne C. Lynch Botta


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