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

  • (..) Fifteen seconds to the new year! , , , , , ... Salvatore. Oh, great. Never been driven, he said. How'll we get home? Stop! Oh, God, it's my father. Hello, Mr. Mendola. - Hello. (..)
    1988 Cinema Paradiso