Synonyms for dead set
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : ded set for 1, 2; ded set for 3 |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈdɛd ˈsɛt for 1, 2; ˈdɛd ˌsɛt for 3 |
Top 10 synonyms for dead set Other synonyms for the word dead set
- adamantine
- bullheaded
- changeless
- chiseled
- dead set
- determined
- disciplinary
- dour
- firm
- forbidding
- grim
- hard
- hard-boiled
- incompliant
- inelastic
- inexorable
- intransigent
- invariable
- iron-fisted
- locked in
- no-nonsense
- obdurate
- oppressive
- picky
- prudish
- punctilious
- puritanical
- rigid
- rigorous
- scrupulous
- set
- set in stone
- severe
- single-minded
- solid
- square
- static
- stern
- stickling
- straight
- strait-laced
- stringent
- stuffy
- tough
- tough nut to crack
- unalterable
- unbending
- unbreakable
- unchanging
- uncompromising
- undeviating
- unmoving
- unpermissive
- unrelenting
- unsparing
- unyielding
- uptight
Définition of dead set
- As in rigid : adj stiff, strict, severe
- As in strict : adj authoritarian
- Dead set on it, and says he wouldn't change his profession to be a king.
- Extract from : « The Eternal City » by Hall Caine
- Mamma is dead set against the artistic, and I'm dead set against the fashionable.
- Extract from : « The Coast of Bohemia » by William Dean Howells
- He's dead set on Clara goin' for service and she wants to be a typewriter.
- Extract from : « Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge » by Pemberton Ginther
- Moreover, all the French here are, and always have been, dead set on Asia.
- Extract from : « Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 » by Ian Hamilton
- They are dead set against England, and claim to belong to France.
- Extract from : « Ben Comee » by M. J. (Michael Joseph) Canavan
- He got her dead set on him and his stories, that's what he gets for 'em!
- Extract from : « A First Family of Tasajara » by Bret Harte
- I suppose he made a dead set at you while I was away—cowardly brute!
- Extract from : « Captain Desmond, V.C. » by Maud Diver
- The dead set against him extended from the Fifth Form downwards.
- Extract from : « The Hero of Garside School » by J. Harwood Panting
- For our friend Cælius has a dead set made at him by the Clodian gens.
- Extract from : « The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 » by Marcus Tullius Cicero
- No wonder, then, that there was a dead set at them, the living owner maulgre.
- Extract from : « The Book-Collector » by William Carew Hazlitt
Antonyms for dead set
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