Definition of Single-minded

1. Adjective. Determined. "Single-minded in his determination to stop smoking"

Exact synonyms: Resolved
Similar to: Resolute
Derivative terms: Single-mindedness

Definition of Single-minded

1. Adjective. Intensely focused and concentrated on purpose, thinking of only one goal, undistractable. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Single-minded

1. Having a single purpose; hence, artless; guileless; single-hearted. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Single-minded

single-click
single-clicks
single-elimination tournament
single-entry bookkeeping
single-foot
single-gene diseases
single-handed
single-handedly
single-hearted
single-lane
single-layer ejecta
single-leaf
single-leaf pine
single-leaf pinyon
single-member system
single-minded (current term)
single-minded branding moment
single-minded branding moments
single-mindedly
single-mindedness
single-molecule magnet
single-parent families
single-parent family
single-payer system
single-phasing
single-player
single-ply membrane
single-ply roof
single-point urban interchange
single-point urban interchanges

Literary usage of Single-minded

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lives of Twelve Good Men by John William Burgon (1889)
"w WILLIAM JACOBSON: THE single-minded BISHOP. [AD 1803—1884. ... For want of an apter epithet, he is here styled,—" The single-minded Bishop. ..."

2. Lives of Twelve Good Men by John William Burgon (1888)
"WILLIAM JACOBSON: THE single-minded BISHOP. [AD 1803—1884. ... For want of an apter epithet, he is here styled,—" The single-minded"Bishop. ..."

3. Lives of Twelve Good Men by John William Burgon (1888)
"WILLIAM JACOBSON: THE single-minded BISHOP. [AD 1803—1884.] 1" AM next to draw the portrait, and to relate the prin- *- cipal incidents in the life of ..."

4. Pictures from the Balkans by John Foster Fraser (1906)
"... Guerilla Warfare —Elbasan—Twenty or Thirty Murders a Week—Ducks as Scavengers—Albanian Silk—The Best Hotel at Elbasan —A single-minded Landlord—Air. ..."

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