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bent on

bent on adjective: completely determined; obstinate.

Adjective

bent on (comparative more bent on, superlative most bent on)

  1. (idiomatic) Completely determined; obstinate.
    • He was bent on reaching the end of the book, even if it meant staying up all night.
    • A colossal bipartisan investment of American force, treasure and diplomacy to defeat a hostile ideology bent on the creation of an Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has failed.2021 August 17, Roger Cohen, “For America, and Afghanistan, the Post-9/11 Era Ends Painfully”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

bent on meaning in Hindi, Urdu and Malayalam

bent on in Hindi

bent on , hell-bent
उतारू utārū

bent on in Urdu

آرزو مند

bent on in Malayalam

intent on, insistent on, determined on
നിശ്ചയിച്ചുറച്ച, ദൃഢനിശ്ചിതമായ, ചെയ്യാൻനിശ്ചയിച്ചുറച്ച, ദൃഢനിശ്ചയമെടുത്ത, മനസ്സുറപ്പിച്ച, നിർബ്ബന്ധബുദ്ധിയായ

Forms of bent on

comparativemore bent on
superlativemost bent on

Words that rhyme with bent on

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about bent on

What does bent on mean?
Bent on means completely determined; obstinate.
What is bent on in Hindi?
Bent on in Hindi is उतारू (utārū). See Bent on meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is bent on?
Bent on is an adjective.

Words near bent on in the dictionary

  1. bent function
  2. bent functions
  3. bent grass
  4. bent grasses
  5. bent it like Beckham
  6. bent on
  7. bent on a splice
  8. bent one off
  9. bent one's elbow
  10. bent over
  11. bent over backward

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bent on (page history and authors); उतारू (Hindi) (page history and authors); bent on (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bent on (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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