Meaning of driven in English:

driven

Pronunciation /ˈdrɪvn/

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verb

past participle of drive

adjective

1in combination Operated, moved, or controlled by a specified person or source of power.
‘a chauffeur-driven limousine’
- ‘wind-driven sand’
1. 1.1Motivated or determined by a specified factor or feeling.
  ‘a market-driven response to customer needs’
2(of a person) relentlessly compelled by the need to accomplish a goal; very hard-working and ambitious.
‘my husband is a driven man’
- ‘Most of my classmates, in fact, turned out to be similarly driven.’
- ‘The new breed is full of confidence, driven by restless ambition.’
- ‘He is driven to find his captured niece Debbie, who was kidnapped by marauding Comanches.’
- ‘The women are also driven by the longing to be beautiful, which goes hand-in-hand with the desire to be a fine dancer.’
- ‘Driven by my stomach we went to walmart to stock up on munchies.’
- ‘In this, Grosvenor confounds every preconception you might have about highly driven Cambridge graduates.’
- ‘Hyslop and Sturgeon are both in their 30s, both brought up in Ayrshire, both driven and tough.’
- ‘He is a driven person with one goal.’
- ‘It never failed to amaze Charles how brilliant and driven she really was.’
- ‘For those who believe that big salaries should just get bigger, the implication is that top people are driven largely by the first effect.’
- ‘Though with these two highest ranked contestants in this competition being as driven as they are it would hardly be otherwise.’
- ‘No, they are sometimes too rough, too driven by circulation targets and proprietors with an eye for profit, too sensational, too uncaring.’
3(of snow) piled into drifts or made smooth by the wind.
‘It seemed a remarkably interesting change from blue-collar soldiers and pure patriotic ‘pure as the driven snow’ operatives.’
- ‘His assassins' motives were as pure as the driven slush.’
- ‘You have posted twice on this board to tout both your article ‘pure as the driven snow’ and yourself.’
- ‘In fact they, we, are all wired together, and only the driven snow may be pure.’
- ‘Oh of course, he is as totally pure as the driven snow in comparison!’
- ‘‘He puts himself out there as pure as the driven snow, and he's not,’ says Jacobs.’
- ‘Whoever dreamt up the expression ‘pure as the driven snow’ lied.’
- ‘I also hear that we have got so besotted with cleansing ourselves to the point of the driven snow that the bosses can't even be seen in a corporate box these days.’
- ‘She acts pure as the driven snow (but not cold) and she is extremely neat and clean about her desk and her personal appearance.’
- ‘Even driven snow has at each flake's heart a speck of soot around which the crystal coalesces.’
- ‘So the idea that somehow we are as pure as driven snow and that we take sporting success and failure in our stride is just hogwash.’
- ‘He may be pure as the driven snow, yet in my view he should go.’
- ‘But as we have learned in this contest, Clarke is not exactly pure as the driven snow himself.’
- ‘Were they not as pure as the driven snow back then!’
- ‘It may never be as pure as driven snow - what sport is? - yet swimming's public reputation remains relatively intact.’
- ‘So I am not exactly pure as the driven snow where the books are concerned.’
- ‘Then, of course, as time went on, it was discovered that perhaps it was not as pure as the driven snow and that amendments were needed.’
- ‘When it comes to that aspect in my life, I'm a pure as the clean driven snow.’
- ‘This would affect a lot of people because many bankrupts, shall we say, are not entirely pure as the driven snow.’
- ‘You want pop as pure but biting as the driven Yorkshire snow.’