single-minded

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single-minded

adjective more single-minded · most single-minded

  1. Intensely focused and concentrated on purpose, thinking of only one goal, undistractable. 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.
  2. idiomatic Honest, sincere, straightforward.

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adj intensely focused

中文專一 /专一 zhuānyī, 專心致志 /专心致志 zhuānxīnzhìzhì, 一心一意 yīxīnyīyì
Portuguêsdeterminado
Françaisdéterminé, résolu
Deutschunbeirrbar, zielstrebig, entschlossen
Românădeterminat, rezolut
Русскийцелеустремлённый celeustremljónnyj, целенапра́вленный celenaprávlennyj

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@misc{single_minded_2026,
  title = {single-minded},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/single-minded},
  urldate = {2026-11-05}
}