out to

1. 1.

   fixed in your purpose

   “bent on going to the theater”

   “dead set against intervening”

   “out to win every event”

   Synonymsbentbent ondead set

   Similarresolute

Questions about out to

What does out to mean?

out to means "fixed in your purpose".

What is another word for out to?

Close synonyms include bent, bent on, dead set. 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 out to a common word?

out to 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.