single-minded
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See also: singleminded
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]single-minded (comparative more single-minded, superlative most single-minded)
- Intensely focused and concentrated on purpose, thinking of only one goal, undistractable.
- 1865 January 7, Karl Mark, “Address of the International Working Men's Association to Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America”, in The Bee-Hive Newspaper[1], number 169:
- 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.
- 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Angara: The Roekaar Codex entry:
- Ruthless and single-minded, the Roekaar's propaganda describes their intent to drive all alien invaders, both Milky Way and kett, out of the Heleus Cluster.
Derived terms
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[edit]intensely focused
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