BENT ON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bent on mean? 

• BENT ON (adjective)
  The adjective BENT ON has 1 sense:

1. fixed in your purpose

  Familiarity information: BENT ON used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BENT ON (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fixed in your purpose

Synonyms:

bent; bent on; dead set; out to

Context example:

out to win every event

Similar:

resolute (firm in purpose or belief; characterized by firmness and determination)

 Context examples 

His eye, bent on me, expressed at once stern surprise and keen inquiry.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I could not understand then what the haste meant, but the driver was evidently bent on losing no time in reaching Borgo Prund.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

So Jo was satisfied with the investment of her prize money, and fell to work with a cheery spirit, bent on earning more of those delightful checks.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I was really in pain for him; for your hard-hearted sister, Miss Anne, seems bent on cruelty.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

He argued like a young man very much bent on dancing; and Emma was rather surprized to see the constitution of the Weston prevail so decidedly against the habits of the Churchills.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

As if a man bent on felony would slam his door so as to wake a household.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All the time he kept smiling and putting his tongue out in the most guilty, embarrassed manner, so that a child could have told that he was bent on some deception.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Henry wished to dissuade me, but seeing me bent on this plan, ceased to remonstrate.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Eclipses are very strong cosmic events that are bent on creating radical change, and the one in December was unusually sweet as sugar.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

His face was always full of expression, but I never saw it express such a dark kind of earnestness as when he said these words, with his glance bent on the fire.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)