COMMITTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does committed mean? 

• COMMITTED (adjective)
  The adjective COMMITTED has 2 senses:

1. bound or obligated, as under a pledge to a particular cause, action, or attitude

2. associated in an exclusive sexual relationship

  Familiarity information: COMMITTED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMITTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bound or obligated, as under a pledge to a particular cause, action, or attitude

Context example:

a committed Marxist

Similar:

bound up; wrapped up (deeply devoted to)

pledged; sworn (bound by or as if by an oath)

Antonym:

uncommitted (not bound or pledged)

Derivation:

committedness (the trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Associated in an exclusive sexual relationship

Synonyms:

attached; committed

Similar:

bespoken; betrothed (pledged to be married)

intended (future; betrothed)

involved (emotionally involved)

Also:

loving (feeling or showing love and affection)

 Context examples 

He will be here this evening, I dare say, and then I will give it him back, and some nonsense or other will pass between us, and you shall not be committed.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

And that these two bodies made up the most august assembly in Europe; to whom, in conjunction with the prince, the whole legislature is committed.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

In writing the stuff it seemed that I had committed acts that were, to say the least, derogatory.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

‘A robbery has been committed,’ I gasped.

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

Both of you will be passionate and committed to a great outcome, and that’s why you will achieve your goals.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It is certain that no robbery has been committed.

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

A neoplasm of lymphoblasts committed to the B-cell lineage, typically composed of small to medium-sized blast cells.

(B Lymphoblastic Leukemia/Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

The Cancer Treatment Research Foundation (CTRF) is a non-profit organization committed to the eradication of cancer by providing the most innovative and promising patient-driven clinical research that delivers immediate treatment options.

(Cancer Treatment Research Foundation, NCI Thesaurus)

I shall do nothing rashly: you know me sufficiently to confide in my prudence and considerateness whenever the safety of others is committed to my care.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

This is the first committed step in the biosynthesis of phosphatidylinositol 3,4-bisphosphate and phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate.

(Phosphatidylinositol 3 Kinase, NCI Thesaurus/LocusLink)