Need another word that means the same as “driven”? Find 4 synonyms and 30 related words for “driven” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Driven” are: impelled, compulsive, determined, goaded
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “driven” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| compulsive | Caused by or suggestive of psychological compulsion. Compulsive eating. |
| determined | Having been learned or found or determined especially by investigation. Helen was a determined little girl. |
| goaded | Compelled forcibly by an outside agency. Mobs goaded by blind hatred. |
| impelled | Urged or forced to action through moral pressure. Felt impelled to take a stand against the issue. |
| addictive | Causing or characterized by addiction. He has an addictive personality. |
| ambition | Have as one s ambition. His ambition is to own his own business. |
| ambitious | Requiring full use of your abilities or resources. A ruthlessly ambitious workaholic. |
| assertive | Having or showing a confident and forceful personality. Pointing directly at a listener is an assertive act. |
| brash | Having an ostentatious or tasteless appearance. The cafe was a brash new building. |
| compulsive | A person with a compulsive disposition someone who feels compelled to do certain things. Compulsive drinking. |
| determined | Having been learned or found or determined especially by investigation. A struggle against a determined enemy. |
| energetic | Showing or involving great activity or vitality. Energetic X rays. |
| enterprising | Having or showing initiative and resourcefulness. Some enterprising teachers have started their own recycling programmes. |
| feisty | Quick to take offense. A love story with a feisty heroine who s more than a pretty face. |
| forceful | Forceful and definite in expression or action. A forceful speaker. |
| hardheaded | Guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory. A hardheaded appraisal of our position. |
| headstrong | Habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition. The headstrong impulsiveness of youth. |
| indefatigable | (of a person or their efforts) persisting tirelessly. An indefatigable defender of human rights. |
| industrious | Characterized by hard work and perseverance. An industrious people striving to make their country prosperous. |
| inflexible | Not able to be bent; stiff. Inflexible rules. |
| kleptomania | A recurrent urge to steal, typically without regard for need or profit. |
| kleptomaniac | Someone with an irrational urge to steal in the absence of an economic motive. |
| motivated | Provided with a motive or given incentive for action. A group of politically motivated men. |
| obsessive | Characterized by or constituting an obsession. She became obsessive about her school work. |
| obstinate | Persist stubbornly. Her obstinate determination to pursue a career in radio. |
| overambitious | Excessively ambitious. He blamed his parents for being overambitious on his behalf. |
| purposeful | Having meaning through having an aim. If his sudden death was not accidental it must have been purposeful. |
| pyromania | An uncontrollable desire to set fire to things. |
| resolute | Admirably purposeful, determined, and unwavering. He was resolute in his fight to uphold liberal values. |
| rigid | (of a person or part of their body) stiff and unmoving, especially as a result of shock or fear. A face rigid with pain. |
| strong | Relating to or denoting the strongest of the known kinds of force between particles which acts between nucleons and other hadrons when closer than about 10 cm so binding protons in a nucleus despite the repulsion due to their charge and which conserves strangeness parity and isospin. A play full of strong language. |
| stubborn | Having or showing dogged determination not to change one’s attitude or position on something, especially in spite of good arguments or reasons to do so. Two stubborn young people intent on doing their own thing. |
| unshaken | Unshaken in purpose. Their trust in him remained unshaken. |
| unyielding | Stubbornly unyielding T S Eliot. His unyielding faith. |
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