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single-minded

[ sing-guhl-mahyn-did ]

adjective

  1. having or showing a single aim or purpose:

    a single-minded program.

  2. dedicated; resolute; steadfast:

    He was single-minded in his concern for truth.

    Synonyms: firm, inflexible, persevering, determined



single-minded

adjective

  1. having but one aim or purpose; dedicated
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˌsingle-ˈmindedly, adverb
  • ˌsingle-ˈmindedness, noun
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Other Words From

  • single-minded·ly adverb
  • single-minded·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of single-minded1

First recorded in 1570–80
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Example Sentences

Nobody doubts his manipulative skills or his single-minded agenda to advance the interests of the corporation he created.

Everything about Dr. Mike's bespeaks the single-minded passion of a man who has what he is quite certain is the best job on earth.

Nick Gillespie on why their single-minded zealotry has gone too far.

Fred has a similarly single-minded approach to keeping his pub from failing, and a growing animosity toward his competition.

And other masters of literary journalism say they recognize the single-minded pursuit of truth at its core.

We thought pursuit had long been abandoned, but they are driven by single-minded hate, not by logic.

Defects such as these could be readily corrected by association with the single-minded, painstaking, thorough Massinger.

They were united in a single-minded purpose, with failure before them—unless—He turned to the stranger.

He is, for evil or for good, the most single-minded man alive.

They admire his consistency and single-minded devotion to the interests of the Church which he guards.

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