Usually means: Firmly determined, unwavering in resolve.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. dead set: Merriam-Webster
  2. dead set: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dead set: Collins English Dictionary
  4. dead set: Vocabulary.com
  5. dead-set, dead set: Wordnik
  6. dead-set, dead set: Wiktionary
  7. dead set: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Dead set, dead set: Dictionary.com
  9. Dead Set (TV series), Dead Set (album), Dead Set: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Dead Set: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  11. dead set: FreeDictionary.org
  12. dead set: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. dead set: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. dead set: Legal dictionary
  2. dead set: Financial dictionary

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  1. dead set: Encyclopedia

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  1. dead set: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dead set: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dead set, dead set, dead set: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. dead set: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dead set)

▸ noun:  (hunting) The rigid pose a hunting dog assumes when pointing out game to a hunter.
▸ noun:  A fixed or stationary condition arising from obstacle or hindrance; a deadlock.
▸ noun:  (figuratively, by extension) A determined effort.
▸ noun:  A pointed and persistent attack on a person.
▸ adjective:  Unswervingly dedicated; resolutely determined.
▸ adjective:  (Australia, colloquial) Complete and utter; total.

Similar:
bent, resolute, bent on, intent on, out to, stalk, Bell shot, dead shot, mort, hunting, more...

Opposite:
undecided, flexible, open-minded

Phrases:
made a dead set at, makes a dead set at, making a dead set at, dead set against, to make a dead set, more...

Adjectives:
put up, lag, set, dit, stray, dead-end, gridlocked, sneak, lap, black

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Similar:
bent, resolute, bent on, intent on, out to, stalk, Bell shot, dead shot, mort, hunting, more...

Opposite:
undecided, flexible, open-minded

Phrases:
made a dead set at, makes a dead set at, making a dead set at, dead set against, to make a dead set, Dead Set on Life, dead set on, dead set on something, more...

Adjectives:
put up, lag, set, dit, stray, dead-end, gridlocked, sneak, lap, black

Colors:
    charcoal,     graphite,     onyx,     obsidian,     pewter, more...



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