dead set

1. 1.

   fixed in your purpose

   “bent on going to the theater”

   “dead set against intervening”

   “out to win every event”

   Synonymsbentbent onout to

   Similarresolute

Questions about dead set

What does dead set mean?

dead set means "fixed in your purpose".

What is another word for dead set?

Close synonyms include bent, bent on, out to. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dead set a common word?

dead set is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.