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

  • (..) We're walking. Walking?! Yep. No, no, no, my baby. Come on. Come on. Look, she needs to be driven. Bye, baby. I... I'll call you! MIKE: Hey, genius, you want to know why (..)
    2001 Monsters, Inc.