Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Fixed; established; steadfast; stable.
- Permanently or deeply fixed; firmly seated; decided; resolved: as, a settled gloom; a settled conviction.
- Quiet; orderly; steady: as, he now leads a settled life.
- Sober; grave.
- Arranged or adjusted by agreement, payment, or otherwise: as, a settled account.
Wiktionary
- adj. Comfortable and at ease, especially after a period of change or unrest.
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of settle.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. not changeable
- adj. inhabited by colonists
- adj. established or decided beyond dispute or doubt
- adj. established in a desired position or place; not moving about
Examples
“When they passed on, the title settled upon their only child, whose loyalty to his biker family caused him to will it to the organization upon his demise.”
“As she watched, a bevy of emotions colored his expression from happiness to remorse to guilt before his expression settled into a cool mask.”
“The title settled upon -- the only one that explains its object -- is”
“Soon after, the label settled into an expansive office compound on Sunset Boulevard that encompassed an entire city block.”
“For the last week he had been what he called settled at Hampstead.”
“Even of those who are more what they call settled, the greater portion is less, probably, at home than whisking about the world.”
“And will remain "settled" law. yes, but what will the religious right do?”
“His expression settled into something sad and hard as he looked at Ingrid’s face, and he handed it back to me.”
“Since Natura had been in what they call a settled state in the world, it had always been his custom to distinguish the anniversary of that day which gave him birth, by providing a polite entertainment for his friends and kindred: he had now attained to his fortieth year, and though it had been that in which he had known more poignant disquiets, than in any one of his whole life before; yet thinking that to neglect the observation of it now, would give occasion for remarks on his reasons for so doing, he resolved to treat it with the usual ceremony.”
Life's Progress Through The Passions Or, The Adventures of Natura
“Kon-Tiki, by Thor Heyerdahl (1950) Nine balsa-wood logs, a big square sail, a bamboo "cabin" with a roof made of banana leaves — thus did Norwegian Heyerdahl and his companions set sail from Peru toward Polynesia to prove a point: that the South Pacific was settled from the east.”
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