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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
undivided
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sb’s full/complete/undivided attention
▪ He gave the task his undivided attention.
undivided loyalty (=loyalty that goes only to one person or group)
▪ He has the undivided loyalty of Manchester United fans.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
attention
▪ Give the telephone conversation your undivided attention.
▪ Each has received her undivided attention.
▪ Now able to give his undivided attention to Thome, Orosco walked him.
▪ A man may be looking forward to regaining the undivided attention of his wife.
▪ He had given his undivided attention to decorating his house for more than a week.
▪ Give us, pray, the benefit of your undivided attention.
▪ On the upside, I can safely say that I had the undivided attention of the class.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A man may be looking forward to regaining the undivided attention of his wife.
▪ Each has received her undivided attention.
▪ Give us, pray, the benefit of your undivided attention.
▪ He had given his undivided attention to decorating his house for more than a week.
▪ It was total, undivided submission that would permit the building of an egalitarian community.
▪ Long, graceful leaves are divided into about twelve spindle-shaped leaflets with undivided margins, and a terminal leaflet.
▪ Sovereignty is not an undivided thing.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
undivided

concentrated \concentrated\ adj.

  1. Having a high density of (the indicated substance); as, a narrow thread of concentrated ore.

    Note: [Narrower terms: undiluted (vs. diluted)]

  2. Gathered together or made less diffuse; as, their concentrated efforts; his concentrated attention. Opposite of distributed or diffused.

    Note: [Narrower terms: bunched, bunchy, clustered; centered, centred, centralized, focused; undivided] [Also See: compact.]

  3. Intense; in an extreme degree; -- of mental phenomena; as, her concentrated passion held them at bay.

  4. being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance. Opposite of dilute or unsaturated.

    Note: [Narrower terms: supersaturated]

    Syn: saturated.

  5. reduced to a stronger or more concentrated form; as, concentrated sulfuric acid. Opposite of diluted.

    Syn: condensed.

  6. characterized by intensity; especially when imposed from without; -- of actions; as, concentrated study.

    Syn: intensive.

  7. characterized by mental concentration.

    Syn: intent.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
undivided

early 15c., from un- (1) "not" + past participle of divide (v.).

Wiktionary
undivided

a. unified, whole

WordNet
undivided
  1. adj. not parted by conflict of opinion; "presented an undivided front"

  2. not shared by or among others; "undivided responsibility"

  3. not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective; "judging a contest with a single eye"; "a single devotion to duty"; "undivided affection"; "gained their exclusive attention" [syn: single(a), exclusive]

  4. not separated into parts or shares; constituting an undivided unit; "an undivided interest in the property"; "a full share" [syn: full]

Usage examples of "undivided".

It extended to his fate in the other world--too probably, in his eyes, that endless, yearless, undivided fate, wherein the breath still breathed into the soul of man by his Maker is no longer the breath of life, but the breath of infinite death-- Sole Positive of Night, Antipathist of Light, giving to the ideal darkness a real and individual hypostasis in helpless humanity, keeping men alive that the light in them may continue to be darkness.

Being widely known as specialists, devoting our undivided attention to chronic affections, and having unusual facilities for the investigation and management of such cases, we have been applied to in innumerable instances, to ascertain the causes of barrenness and effect its removal.

Above all, let us strive to disengage ourselves from homogeneous space, this substratum of fixity, this arbitrary scheme of measurement and division, which, to our greater advantage, subtends the natural, qualitative, and undivided extension of images.

I trace the same customs in the Arab djemmaa and the Afghan purra, in the villages of Persia, India, and Java, in the undivided family of the Chinese, in the encampments of the semi-nomads of Central Asia and the nomads of the far North.

But their target was the third, sternless Jap, while the cruiser returned her undivided attention to the ship with its bow hanging down like a broken jaw.

I felt the impetus of this undiffused, undissipated passion, in its undivided strength, stir and vitalise all my energies, and its power over my own frame made me involuntarily, instinctively confident of the power it would have over hers.

If, then, the divided and quantitatively extended is to participate in another Kind, is to have any sort of participation, it can participate only in something undivided, unextended, wholly outside of quantity.

Kind, is to have any sort of participation, it can participate only in something undivided, unextended, wholly outside of quantity.

Faith of God may yet experience, we pledge ourselves, before the mercy-seat of thy glorious Father, to hand on, unimpaired and undivided, to generations yet unborn, the glory of that tradition of which thou hast been its most brilliant exemplar.

Not only the five republics of Uri, Schwytz, Appenzell, Glarus, and Unterwalden hold their lands as undivided estates, and are governed by their popular folkmotes, but in all other cantons too the village communities remain in possession of a wide self-government, and own large parts of the Federal territory.

Max looked at him and wondered why he had ever longed to be an astrogator, ever been foolish enough to wish to bear this undivided and unendurable burden.

San Tome mine had its own unofficial pay list, whose items and amounts, fixed in consultation by Charles Gould and Senor Avellanos, were known to a prominent business man in the United States, who for twenty minutes or so in every month gave his undivided attention to Sulaco affairs.

It is a mystical truth, that reality at its deepest level is an undivided wholeness.

Peter Hofmeister owed his long-established favor with the buergerschaft more to a never-slumbering regard to its exclusive interests and its undivided supremacy, than to any particular skill in the art of rendering men comfortable and happy.

I was calm and col- lected and could place my undivided attention on her actions.