Crossword clues for single-minded
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
single-minded \sin"gle-mind"ed\, a. Having a single purpose; concentrating on a single goal; hence, artless; guileless; single-hearted.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Intensely focused and concentrated on purpose, thinking of only one goal, undistractable.
WordNet
adj. determined; "she was firmly resolved to be a doctor"; "single-minded in his determination to stop smoking" [syn: resolved]
Usage examples of "single-minded".
Athens to Jerusalem and the Old Testament it is to a mythology with a very different upper story and very different power up there: not a polytheistic pantheon favoring both sides simultaneously, but a single-minded single deity, with his sympathies forever on one side.
She was single-minded in her unswayable desire to win sympathy and medical intercession from some minor saint and had no curiosity about pre-Christian Rome at all.
But it becomes exclusive for the individual who adopts it, because of the single-minded and disinterested manner in which it is pursued.
Known otherwise as Lord Eddo, he was the most single-minded person Ivar had ever met.
Its eyes were fixed upon the person of Rupert Inkman with that flaming, intent, single-minded glare of rage and hatred which immediately reminded everyone present of nothing so much as, well, as the flaming, intent, single-minded glare of rage and hatred which rock snarls typically bestow upon those they intend to devour on the instant.
But they seemed to work for those whose single-minded concern was to delineate the biochemistry, neurophysiology and cell biology of learning and memory.
More to the point, because Wal-Mart is so big and so obsessively focused on parlaying low prices into market share, it has forced both its competitors and its vendors to dance to its single-minded tune, dragging down wages with prices.
Lance was a single-minded instructor, a much stronger telekinetic than his first teacher, Rick Hobson, had been.
The single-minded arthropods were not the first example of communal living they had observed among the Xican fauna, but they were by far the most attractive and amusing.
The baptisms of Martin, Cecilia, and Bianca, son and daughters of Sylvanus and Anne Stone, were to be discovered registered in Kensington in the three consecutive years following, as though some single-minded person had been connected with their births.
Two shrews came across it at the same time and fought, squeaking and shrilling and single-minded, like two crackheads quarrelling over a dime bag.
These Geeks have new weapons, new applications and a kind of single-minded drive.
Who would hunt for a single-minded, independent woman architect Pamela Hayes in a cozy, domestic setting?
The alien lifeform was known to be terrifyingly single-minded and swift to act.
Cugel seated himself at the table and watched with single-minded vigilance as Faucelme moved here and there, collecting small dishes of cakes, preserves, compotes and vegetable pastes.