settle on

1. 1.

   become fixed (on)

   “Her eyes fixated on a point on the horizon”

   Synonymsfixate

   Broaderfreeze

Questions about settle on

What does settle on mean?

settle on means "become fixed (on)".

What is another word for settle on?

Close synonyms include fixate. 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 settle on a common word?

settle on 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.