fixed

Definition

  • adjective: placed or attached in a way that does not move easily
  • adjective: securely placed or fastened
  • used to describe something that does not change
  • synonyms: stationary

Examples

  • All eyes were 'fixed on' her as she entered the room. [=everyone looked at her as she entered the room]

  • She 'has her hopes fixed on' a career in journalism. [=she hopes/wants to have a career in journalism]

  • All eyes 'fixed on' her as she entered the room. [=everyone looked at her as she entered the room]

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) - Yes - How looked he, frowningly? - A countenance more in sorrow than in anger - Pale or red? - Nay very pale - And his eyes fixed upon you? - Most constantly - I would I had been there - It would have much amazed you Very like, very like. Hold you the watch again tonight? (..)
    2015 Hamlet
  • (..) This gentle and unforced accord of Hamlet sits smiling to my heart Oh that this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew Or that the Everlasting had not fixed his canon 'gainst self-slaughter O God, O God How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable Fie on't, oh fie! (..)
    2015 Hamlet