hell-bent
32
7.5
- idiom
- /hɛl bɛnt/
- Informal
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- So I'm hell bent on making this happen or they'll stop talking to me again.
It looks like I am just hell bent on inflicting bodily harm.
- It looks like I am just hell bent on inflicting bodily harm.
- But when Josh gets an idea in his head, he is hell bent on confirming said idea.
- And he wants to be a dictator and he's hell bent on being one.
- How can I love me and love my body when I'm housing something that is so hell bent on killing me?
- We actually have more cows than we actually need in our society because we're so hell bent on beef and dairy production.
- And then you got these these clowns that are, you know, they're so hell bent on hating something because it's a distraction, keeps you from looking at yourself.
- So I'm hell bent on making the experience of buying and selling real estate the same way it is perhaps for Amazon.
- She's just hell bent on revenge the German way.
- Because he seems to be hell bent on making sure that he doesn't.
Examples
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My father was hell-bent on making sure I succeeded in my career, no matter the cost to his own happiness.
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In that first year after treatment, I was hell bent on moving on from this experience.
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But when Josh gets an idea in his head, he is hell bent on confirming said idea.
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You are hell-bent on making them live in it.
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But it's hard to change when the other side is hell-bent on preventing change.
Blog text (7) -
Our current government is hell-bent on the preservation of wealth for the highest bidder.
Blog text (16) -
Karl Rove stole the 2004 election, and he was hell-bent on stealing this one as well.
Blog text (1) -
Graziani is hell bent on crushing the insurgency.
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A tribute to the resourcefulness of a parent hell-bent on protecting its spawn.
Fiction book (2002) -
After losing the championship game, the team was hell-bent on training harder for the next season.
Synonyms
55
4.6
Determined to do something even if it is difficult or dangerous
31
4.4
Very determined to do something no matter the difficulty
18
6.8
Being very excited and active about a cause or goal
7
7.9
Very angry and ready to punish someone who upset you
Antonyms
How Reckless
- Informal
32
7.5
193
3.6
30
6.8
15
4.4
399
2.5
1
4.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word hell-bent puts together hell and bent, and bent is like bend, meaning 'turned' or 'aimed'. A helpful image is someone 'bent toward hell' — so set on one path that they ignore danger, which is why hell-bent means recklessly determined to do something.