settled

[set·tle]

Established in a desired position or place; not moving about

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Adjective S.
not changeable; "a period of settled weather"

Adjective S.
clearly defined; "I have no formed opinion about the chances of success"

Adjective S.
inhabited by colonists

Adjective
established in a desired position or place; not moving about; "nomads...absorbed among the settled people"; "settled areas"; "I don''t feel entirely settled here"; "the advent of settled civilization"

Adjective
established or decided beyond dispute or doubt; "with details of the wedding settled she could now sleep at night"

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imp. & p. p.
of Settle


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Usage Examples

If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

Hatred is settled anger.

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.

It's not like I had big dreams to go to California and become an actor. I loved doing my shows at school and community theater, and I probably would have settled in New York because it was closer. I was going to go to NYU.

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

I'd like to be settled into somewhat of a normal life. Somewhat. I know it's never going to be completely normal.

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

I got a family house for everybody to live in - my mom, my sisters and I. And I made sure that it has a separate apartment downstairs for myself. Family is more important than anything. We don't come from any money. So once I get them settled in, in a nice house, then I'll branch out and see if I can get something else.

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.

Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.

Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented.

My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

All the culture war issues will be settled by the court.

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