driven

Definition

  • adjective: very determined to succeed
  • adjective: having a compulsive or urgent quality
  • past participle of 'drive'
  • used in combination
  • synonyms: ambitious, nonvoluntary, unvoluntary

Examples

  • Thousands of people have been 'driven' from their homes. [=have been forced to leave their homes]

  • The family was 'driven out' of the neighborhood by rising real estate prices.

  • a steam-'driven' turbine [=a turbine that gets its power from steam]

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) To crack the cells open to their nucleus. All these knowledge, Lucy... I'm not even sure that mankind is ready for it. We're so driven by power and profit. Given man's nature, it might bring us only instability and chaos. Ignorance brings chaos, not knowledge. I'll build a computer (..)
    2014 Lucy
  • (..) and I demand us a lawyer. I'll check the surgery. - Grab us some food. - You're a foodaholic. Do you always drive like that? I never driven before. Great. - Hey, this is one way! - We're late. Hey, I would rather be late than dead. We never really die. (..)
    2014 Lucy