Antonyms for determined
dɪˈtɜr mɪndde·ter·mined

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.5 / 2 votes

1. determined

   The headstrong person is not to be stopped in his own course of action, while the obstinate and stubborn is not to be driven to another's way. The headstrong act; the obstinate and stubborn may simply refuse to stir. The most amiable person may be obstinate on some one point; the stubborn person is for the most part habitually so; we speak of obstinate determination, stubborn resistance. Stubborn is the term most frequently applied to the lower animals and inanimate things. Refractory implies more activity of resistance; the stubborn horse balks; the refractory animal plunges, rears, and kicks; metals that resist ordinary processes of reduction are termed refractory. One is obdurate who adheres to his purpose in spite of appeals that would move any tender-hearted or right-minded person. Contumacious refers to a proud and insolent defiance of authority, as of the summons of a court. Pertinacious demand is contrasted with obstinate refusal. The unyielding conduct which we approve we call decided, firm, inflexible, resolute; that which we condemn we are apt to term headstrong, obstinate, stubborn. Compare PERVERSE.

   Antonyms:
   amenable, complaisant, compliant, docile, dutiful, gentle, irresolute, obedient, pliable, pliant, submissive, teachable, tractable, undecided, wavering, yielding

   Synonyms:
   contumacious, decided, dogged, firm, fixed, headstrong, heady, immovable, indomitable, inflexible, intractable, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, persistent, pertinacious, refractory, resolute, resolved, stubborn, unconquerable, unflinching, unyielding

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:4.8 / 6 votes

1. determinedadjective

   characterized by great determination

   "a struggle against a determined enemy"

   Antonyms:
   docile, ambitionless, unambitious, undetermined, unsettled, unexplained, irresolute

   Synonyms:
   set, dictated, driven, compulsive

2. determinedadjective

   having been learned or found or determined especially by investigation

   Antonyms:
   unexplained, unsettled, ambitionless, irresolute, undetermined, unambitious, docile

   Synonyms:
   set, dictated, driven, compulsive

3. determinedadjective

   devoting full strength and concentrated attention to

   "made continued and determined efforts to find and destroy enemy headquarters"

   Antonyms:
   unexplained, irresolute, docile, unambitious, undetermined, ambitionless, unsettled

   Synonyms:
   set, dictated, driven, compulsive

4. determined, dictated, setadjective

   determined or decided upon as by an authority

   "date and place are already determined"; "the dictated terms of surrender"; "the time set for the launching"

   Antonyms:
   docile, irresolute, ambitionless, unsettled, undetermined, unexplained, unambitious

   Synonyms:
   set(p), dictated, set, laid, compulsive, situated, located, placed, fit(p), hardened, primed(p), fixed, driven, rigid

5. compulsive, determined, drivenadjective

   strongly motivated to succeed

   Antonyms:
   docile, irresolute, undetermined, ambitionless, unexplained, unsettled, unambitious

   Synonyms:
   set, dictated, driven, compulsive, impelled, goaded

How to use determined in a sentence?

1. Steve Romines:

   The ballistics subsequently came back from the Kentucky state police and determined that the shot that they claimed hit Officer Mattingly, they could not determine it was fired from( Walker's) gun.

2. Carlos Mandujano:

   He has been found, but unfortunately, dead, we don't know the cause of death yet; that will be determined by the autopsy.

3. Hannah Arendt:

   No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

4. Anthony Fauci:

   I think that, especially for people who are at significant risk for progression, it's important to take Paxlovid, a percentage of those people -- yet to be determined -- are going to have rebound. But in almost all of those people, the rebound is going to be an inconvenience. And that inconvenience, really, is not as important as the potential of avoiding hospitalization or death.

5. Flint Mayor Karen Weaver:

   We're still determined to get the lead out of Flint.

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