driven

[drivĀ·en]

Compelled forcibly by an outside agency

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of Drive. Also adj.

Adjective S.
strongly motivated to succeed

Adjective S.
urged or forced to action through moral pressure; "felt impelled to take a stand against the issue"

Adjective S.
compelled forcibly by an outside agency; "mobs goaded by blind hatred"


p. p.
of Drive

p. p.
of Drive. Also adj.


Driven

Driv"en , p. p. of Drive. Also adj. Driven well, a well made by driving a tube into the earth to an aqueous stratum; -- called also drive well.

of Drive. Also adj.

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Usage Examples

I was always obsessed with being famous. I had Marilyn Monroe paper dolls as a child, and I was always obsessed with her. I've just been really driven in that direction, and none of my friends were. So, I don't know what put that bug in me at a young age.

A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services.

Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.

Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.

For years, it's driven me crazy that women don't have better roles, especially in comedies. I know so many funny women but I always felt... misogynist streak is too strong a term - but a dismissiveness.

I think people like comedies and I think concept driven comedies seem to be working when it's a clear concept and you deliver funny stuff.

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Other Usage Examples

I never worry about being driven to drink I just worry about being driven home.

Because of my parents' love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia - first by Hitler and then by Stalin.

Don't kid yourself. President Obama's decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the United States' 'position of strength' in the war zone as much as it is by grim economic and political realities at home.

I love a man with a great sense of humor and who is intelligent - a man who has a great smile. He has to make me laugh. I like a man who is very ambitious and driven and who has a good heart and makes me feel safe. I like a man who is very strong and independent and confident - that is very sexy - but at the same time, he's very kind to people.

I wake up every morning feeling lucky - which is driven by fear, no doubt, since I know it could all go away.

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

And one thing that I always believed and that I knew for certain was that I could never have sustained a personal relationship while I worked this hard, or while I was that driven this intensely by the story.

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