What is another word for hell-bent?

Pronunciation: [hˈɛlbˈɛnt] (IPA)

Hell-bent is a colloquial term that implies an unwavering determination or an unstoppable will. It is often used to describe someone who is determined to achieve their goals at any cost or with reckless abandon. Synonyms for hell-bent include phrases such as "dead set," "bound and determined," and "single-minded." These terms imply a focused and unwavering determination to succeed, much like someone who is hell-bent on achieving their goal. Other synonyms for this term include "driven," "obsessed," and "fixated," all of which highlight the intensity and passion involved in pursuing a goal with single-minded purpose.

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What are the opposite words for hell-bent?

The phrase "hell-bent" is often used to describe someone who is determined to achieve something, regardless of the consequences. However, there are several antonyms to this phrase, which convey a different meaning. Some antonyms for "hell-bent" include "wavering," "hesitant," "undecided," "doubtful," and "half-hearted." These words suggest a lack of determination or conviction in one's actions or decisions. Other antonyms for "hell-bent" include "flexible," "adaptable," "accommodating," and "open-minded," which imply a willingness to consider different perspectives and adjust course if necessary. Using these antonyms can help in expressing an entirely different sentiment from that conveyed by the phrase "hell-bent.

Famous quotes with Hell-bent

  • There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have some secret message. We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. It's simply about life experience.
    Amy Lee
  • When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.
    Alanis Morissette
  • It's time to replace career politicians with citizen's politicians. It's time to elect people who are going to stand up to the Washington elite and stand up to a White House and Congress hell-bent on ramming socialism down our throat.
    Christine O'Donnell
  • The white race is the cancer of human history? Who was this woman? Who and what? An anthropological epidemiologist? A renowned authority on the history of cultures throughout the world, a synthesizer of the magnitude of a Max Weber, a Joachim Wach, a Sir James Frazer, an Arnold Toynbee? Actually, she was just another scribbler who spent her life signing up for protest meetings and lumbering to the podium, encumbered by her prose style, which had a handicapped parking sticker valid at . Perhaps she was exceptionally hell-bent on illustrating McLuhan's line about indignation endowing the idiot with dignity, but otherwise she was just a typical American intellectual of the post-World War II period.
    Susan Sontag
  • Judy lived in my hotel. She was just seventeen, and what she was doing in Paris was supposedly chaperoning her younger brother, a fully fledged concert pianist of fifteen, who was studying there with one of the leading teachers. In view of their combined and startling innocence, however, this was a rather useless arrangement. Their last name was Galache, and they were the issue with which the highly unlikely union of a Quaker woman from Philadelphia and a dreadfully dashing Spaniard (now, alas, dead) had been blessed. Naturally their upbringing, up to this point, had been strict and very sheltered. … Judy was so different from me that it was really ludicrous. Whereas I was hell-bent for living, she was content, at least for the time being, to leave all that to others. Just as long as she could all about it. She really was funny about this. Folded every which way on the floor, looking like Bambi — all eyes and legs and no chin — she would listen for ages and ages with rapt attention to absolutely any drivel that you happened to be talking. It was unbelievable.
    Elaine Dundy

Related words: ill-tempered, ill-humoured, ill-humored, restless, tormented

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