committed

Obligated or locked in (often by a pledge) to some course of action.

Adjective

  1. Obligated or locked in (often by a pledge) to some course of action.
    • I'm committed to walk(ing) at least 7 miles daily.
    • As the genre has shifted and evolved around — and in many ways beyond — them, they have remained committed to a role as flamekeeper of a certain strain of hip-hop authenticity. - 2009 March 10, Jon Caramanica, “Stepping...
    • ‹Plan CM, meanwhile, is in motion. Sirleck took the bait, vampire mercenaries he can't call off are incoming... he's committed.› - 2017 April 12, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Wednesday, Apr 12, 2017:
  2. Showing commitment.
  3. Associated in an exclusive (but not necessarily permanent) sexual relationship.
  4. Required by logic to endorse the conclusion of an argument.

Forms

more committed most committed

Hyponyms

fully committed pot committed

Derived

committed dose committedly committedness noncommitted precommitted uncommitted

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of commit