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settled

settled

2.7
Living in one place and not moving around
  • adjective
  • /ˈsɛtld/
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  • The family felt settled after unpacking their belongings and making the house their own.

It's different from the gentrification of a more settled, slightly older population.

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Examples

  • And so it's been very hard to like decorate and feel settled and have those traditions anymore.

  • Once she found a job she loved, she felt more settled and ready to build a life in the town.

  • For someone like me, I'd say I'm settled and pretty calm.

  • It was a bit much, but I got settled in and then I went out looking.

  • And as she's getting settled, she sees the woman again.

  • Well, I'll say this, it's hard to know how you'll behave until you're in a settled place.

  • After years of moving from city to city, they finally feel settled in their new home.

Synonyms

inhabited
vssettled
2.9

A place where people or animals live

is occupied in a stable long-term way rather than just currently lived in

Antonyms

81 2.7

Able to change or move easily

22 4.2

Not decided or final, for example a question, a plan

Compounds

An area where many people live close together

How Settled

rooted
3 3.7
settled
2.7
unsettled
22 4.2
transient
11 7.0
nomadic
22 4.9

Surface Forms

settled positive

Morphology

settled = settle (transparent) = settle + ed

Adjectival/past-participle formation from 'settle' (as in 'settle in'), so 'settled' meaning 'established in a place' is directly derived.

Etymology

Settled comes from an old word for 'sit' or 'seat', like the word seat. To be 'settled' in one place is to have 'taken a seat' there — a fixed home and routine.