single-minded

See also: singleminded

English

Adjective

single-minded (comparative more single-minded, superlative most single-minded)

1. 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.

   • 2021 March 28, Phil McNulty, “Albania 0-2 England”, in BBC Sport‎^[2]:

     Southgate's single-minded approach means he will not worry about outside noise if he is convinced this is the right way to go. The proof, as ever, will come with results before and during the summer's delayed Euro 2020 showpiece.

2. (idiomatic) Honest, sincere, straightforward.

Derived terms

• single-mindedly
• single-mindedness

 

Translations

intensely focused

• Bulgarian: целенасочен (bg) (celenasočen)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 專一 / 专一 (zh) (zhuānyī), 專心致志 / 专心致志 (zh) (zhuānxīnzhìzhì), 一心一意 (zh) (yīxīnyīyì)

• Finnish: määrätietoinen (fi)
• French: déterminé (fr), résolu (fr)
• German: unbeirrbar (de), zielstrebig (de), entschlossen (de)
• Portuguese: determinado (pt) m
• Romanian: determinat (ro) m, rezolut (ro) m
• Russian: целеустремлённый (ru) (celeustremljónnyj), целенапра́вленный (ru) (celenaprávlennyj)
• Swedish: målmedveten (sv)