RESOLVED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does resolved mean? 

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

1. determined

2. explained or answered

  Familiarity information: RESOLVED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESOLVED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Determined

Synonyms:

resolved; single-minded

Context example:

single-minded in his determination to stop smoking

Similar:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Explained or answered

Synonyms:

resolved; solved

Context example:

mysteries solved and unsolved; problems resolved and unresolved

 Context examples 

She now resolved to keep Harriet no longer in the dark.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

This gene may play a role in the repair of DNA damage that is resolved by recombination.

(PALB2 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

On somebody's motion, we resolved to go downstairs to the dress-boxes, where the ladies were.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This protein may play roles in cell cycle checkpoints and the repair of damaged DNA resolved by recombination.

(Partner and Localizer of BRCA2, NCI Thesaurus)

Willing therefore to delay the evil hour, she resolved to wait till her sister's health were more secure, before she appointed it.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Undersensing manifests as failure to sense appropriate cardiac depolarizations that cannot be resolved with reprogramming.

(Cardiac Device Undersensing, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

“Ah!” She drew in her breath sharply as one whose doubts are resolved.

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

He resolved to get a tooth-brush and form the habit.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Besides, remember that she had resolved to use it within a few days.

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

They would never get another rope around his neck. Upon that he was resolved.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)