single-mindedly

Examples

• All

• I'm quite cool with kids being single mindedly focused on something that they want to achieve.

  High Performance

• Discerning obvious good and evil, he moves ahead single-mindedly.

  Academic text (2004)

• How many of us can sit in a chair and single mindedly work out one problem?

  Tom Bilyeu

• Working at it single-mindedly, but not with total success.

  Fiction book (1999)

• "We can now work single-mindedly on our films."

  Blog text (30)

• So when a position opened in the Art History department... ...she pursued it single-mindedly until she was hired.

  Mona Lisa Smile (2003)

• Businesses single-mindedly focus on making money, often funding the efforts of non-profits.

  Academic text (2016)

• He'd spent the previous twenty years single-mindedly trying to make stories; now it was as if he were depriving himself of water, air, or light.

  Fiction book (1998)

• But instead of single-mindedly building on these gains, the Bush administration has since steadily enlarged and complicated its own mission.

  Academic text (2003)

• East Asia has single-mindedly focused on exports, especially manufacturing exports, based initially on low-cost labor and later on skilled labor.

  Academic text (1996)

Antonyms

D

distractedly

4 5.1

Not giving full attention because the mind is elsewhere

How Focused

relentlessly

53 4.9

single-mindedly

1 5.6

purposefully

31 3.9

attentively

9 3.0

inattentively

6.5

half-heartedly

4 4.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology