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

  • (..) It's more like a depression clinic. She went out to Woodhaven and checked herself in. I'm sick over this. - Who told you this? - Her roommate. I've driven women to lesbianism before... ...but never to a mental institution. My friend Bob Sacamano had shock treatments. But his synapses were so large, (..)
    1991 TvShow: Seinfeld Title: The Truth Season: 3 Episode 2