Single-minded

adj

adj ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

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

    "They consider it an earnest of the epoch to come that it fell to the lot of Abraham Lincoln, the single-minded son of the working class, to lead his country through the matchless struggle for the rescue of an enchained race and the reconstruction of a social world."

  2. 2
    Honest, sincere, straightforward. idiomatic
Adjective
  1. 1
    determined wordnet

Synonyms

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absorbedartlessassiduousbluffbluntborn yesterday

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"The single-minded way he gets on with his life is truly admirable."

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