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Meaning of "single-minded" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SINGLE-MINDED

single-minded play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SINGLE-MINDED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Single-Minded is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES SINGLE-MINDED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Critical thinking

Critical thinking is the study of clear and unclear thinking. It is primarily used in the field of education, and not in psychology. The National Council for Excellence in Critical Thinking defines critical thinking as the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skilfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action.

Definition of single-minded in the English dictionary

The definition of single-minded in the dictionary is having but one aim or purpose; dedicated.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SINGLE-MINDED

single-ended
single-engined
single-figure
single-foot
single-handed
single-handedly
single-handedness
single-lens reflex
single-line display
single-masted
single-mindedly
single-mindedness
single-parent family
single-party
single-phase
single-seater
single-sex
single-sheet feed
single-sided disk
single-space

WORDS THAT END LIKE SINGLE-MINDED

absent-minded
bloody-minded
dirty-minded
double-minded
evil-minded
extended
fair-minded
liberal-minded
like-minded
long-winded
minded
narrow-minded
open-minded
right-minded
simple-minded
small-minded
sober-minded
strong-minded
tough-minded
weak-minded
winded

Synonyms and antonyms of single-minded in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SINGLE-MINDED»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «single-minded» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of single-minded

Translation of «single-minded» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SINGLE-MINDED

Find out the translation of single-minded to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of single-minded from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «single-minded» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

一心一意的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

resuelto
570 millions of speakers

English

single-minded
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

एकल दिमाग
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

واحدة في التفكير
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

целеустремленная
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

determinado
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

একমনা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

résolu
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

berakal
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

zielstrebig
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ひたむきな
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

외골수인
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Siji-minded
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ngay thẳng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அரைமனதுடனே
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

एकल मनाचा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ne istediğini bilen
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

determinato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

jednomyślna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

цілеспрямована
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

singur -minded
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

single - minded
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

doelgerigte
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

målmedveten
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ensporet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of single-minded

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SINGLE-MINDED»

The term «single-minded» is regularly used and occupies the 76.748 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SINGLE-MINDED» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «single-minded» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «single-minded» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about single-minded

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10 QUOTES WITH «SINGLE-MINDED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word single-minded.
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Evelyn Ashford
I was single-minded and I had tunnel vision. Now it's time for a change.
2
Tim Cahill
Stanley Kubrick, I had been told, hates interviews. It's hard to know what to expect of the man if you've only seen his films. One senses in those films painstaking craftsmanship, a furious intellect at work, a single-minded devotion.
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Teju Cole
A mob is not, as is so often said, mindless. A mob is single-minded.
4
Paul Conroy
Britain, along with the U.S.A., is war weary, and after the travesty of Iraq and Afghanistan, has grave misgivings in any future involvement in the Middle East. The ghost of Tony Blair and his single-minded determination to attack Iraq, at any cost, has cast a long shadow over British politics. The British public have a long collective memory.
5
Sam Elliott
I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.
6
Trisha Goddard
I can be horrifically single-minded.
7
Tom Hollander
I'm no Kenneth Branagh or Ben Stiller. I'm not that single-minded, 'I'm producing it, directing it, and starring in it' kind of person; that's not me.
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A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
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Evelyn Keyes
To become a big movie star like Joan Crawford, you need to wear blinders and pay single-minded attention to your career. Nobody paid attention to me, including me.
10
Reggie Lee
You want something? Go get it with single-minded devotion.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SINGLE-MINDED»

Discover the use of single-minded in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to single-minded and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Single-Minded Devotion: Reflections for the Single Journey
With more than 275 relevant-to-today readings, "Single-Minded Devotion" offers readers a daily Scripture, a thought-provoking question to contemplate, and practical applications of the godly principle being addressed.
Michelle McKinney Hammond, 2009
2
Single-Minded: Being Single, Whole and Living Life to the Full
I think what I have certainly learned from the monastic renewals in the church is that “mono” means single, it's the single-minded pursuit of God, as the pearl we leave everything for; it's the love that we say “no” to all other lovers for. The real ...
Kate Wharton, 2013
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Algorithmic Game Theory
11.1.3 Structure of This Chapter We start our treatment of combinatorial auctions, in Section 11.2, by leaving aside the issue of representation and concentrating on bidders with simple "single-minded" valuations. For these bidders we address  ...
Noam Nisan, Tim Roughgarden, Eva Tardos, 2007
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Key Marketing Skills: Strategies, Tools, and Techniques for ...
Over the course of a promotional campaign it may be possible to build up a series of single-minded propositions, but each specific activity within the campaign should aim to tackle just one at a time. Saving the earth Kyocera, the office ...
Peter Cheverton, 2004
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Bonhoeffer's the Cost of Discipleship
importance of obedience as presented in the following chapter, “Single-Minded Obedience.” CHAPTER 3: SINGLE-MINDED OBEDIENCE Chapter 3 begins with this powerful quote: “Only one thing was required in each case—to rely on ...
Rodney Combs, Greg Ligon, 1998
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Stupid, Ugly, Unlucky and RICH
FOCUS BE SINGLE-MINDED, NOT NARROW-MINDED We have a million things on our minds every day. But we can't succeed at a million things. It's hard enough to succeed at just one thing. That's why it helps to develop a single-minded ...
Richard St. John, 2006
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The Cost of Discipleship
Single-minded. Obedience. WHEN he was challenged by Jesus to accept a life of voluntary poverty, the rich young man knew he was faced with the simple alternative of obedience or disobedience. When Levi was called from the receipt of ...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 2001
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Communication and Cooperation in Agent Systems: A Pragmatic ...
They introduce three types of commitment strategies: blind, single-minded and open-minded. A blindly committed agent would maintain her intention to achieve W until she believes that <p has been achieved. A single-minded agent maintains ...
Afsaneh Haddadi, 1996
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Sources of Japanese Tradition: From earliest times to 1600
All three classes of people together rely on the original vow, and therefore they call on the Buddha of Infinite Life with single-minded devotion. "Single-minded" is a word used in contradistinction to double-minded and triple-minded. This is ...
William Theodore De Bary, 2001
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Song Man: A Melodic Adventure, Or, My Single-Minded Approach ...
Song man is the endearing sequel to Will Hodgkinson’s Guitar Man, wherein our hero, having learned to play guitar (badly) in six months, endeavors to unlock the process of songwriting and ultimately record a single.
Will Hodgkinson, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SINGLE-MINDED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term single-minded is used in the context of the following news items.
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Single-minded
Pathos gets a grand makeover in an upcoming single track album called Bulbu. The love-failure song has catchy lyrics and satire, and the accompanying video ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
2
Single-minded Dafne Schippers aims for sprint glory
Single-minded Dafne Schippers aims for sprint glory. Former heptathlete on why she has always been drawn to life in the fast lane. Dafne Schippers ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
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Going solo: Record highs of single-minded people choosing to go it …
THE numbers of Scots living alone are on the increase with almost 900,000 of the country's 2.4million households containing a single occupant. Business ... «Scottish Daily Record, Jul 15»
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Single-minded: the very fast BAC Mono is now even faster
You probably know the BAC Mono. A track special with just the one seat, nothing superfluous like doors or windows, and a 2.3-litre Cosworth engine sending ... «Top Gear, Jul 15»
5
Single-minded cook
Sam Stern was just 14 years old when he published his first cookbook. Ten years on he tells Sarah Freeman why he hopes his latest collection will re-invent ... «Yorkshire Post, Jun 15»
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Dual hero Collins stays single-minded about injury woe
Podge Collins needs no reminding of how lucky he is to be just injured. Photo Open Gallery 1 Podge Collins needs no reminding of how lucky he is to be just ... «Irish Independent, Jun 15»
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Partisan review – Cassel shimmers with menace in single-minded
Inspired by an article about child assassins in Colombia and set mostly in an isolated compound in an unnamed city, the debut feature film of Ariel Kleiman is ... «The Guardian, May 15»
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Single-minded Rangers won't take drama bait, stay focused
Marc Staal wasn't biting, no matter how many different ways the question was asked. “We're just going to be a little more familiar with them than we are most ... «New York Post, May 15»
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Arsene Wenger annoyed by Swansea's single-minded defending
The ESPN FC crew react to Arsenal's 1-0 defeat to Swansea City, where Craig Burley still feels Arsenal need to sign a few key players in order to challenge ... «ESPN FC, May 15»
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Finance minister single-minded in helping the needy not the greedy
PETER WALSH. Farmer, minister, friend. 11-3-1935 – 10-4-2015. Few of those who have made it to the Australian Senate have made such an impact as Peter ... «Sydney Morning Herald, May 15»

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