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synonyms for hell-bent

  • bent on
  • bound and determined
  • constant
  • decided
  • determined
  • driven
  • firm
  • fixed
  • intent
  • obsessed
  • persevering
  • persistent
  • relentless
  • resolute
  • resolved
  • serious
  • set on
  • single-minded
  • steadfast
  • strong-minded
  • strong-willed
  • stubborn
  • tenacious
  • unhesitating
  • unrelenting
  • unwavering
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
On this page you'll find 29 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hell-bent, such as: bent on, bound and determined, constant, decided, determined, and driven.
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How to use hell-bent in a sentence

Fust I knew them geysers begun for to groan egregious like, an' I seen the caribou gallopin' hell-bent south.
IN SEARCH OF THE UNKNOWNROBERT W. CHAMBERS
Did yu ever see a hen leave th' walks of peace an' bugs an' rustle hell-bent across th' trail plumb in front of a cayuse?
HOPALONG CASSIDY'S RUSTLER ROUND-UPCLARENCE EDWARD MULFORD
But he felt that it was only a truce, and that he would turn up again, hell bent for trouble.
THE BREAKING POINTMARY ROBERTS RINEHART
Is he a real, dependable, hell-bent spook, deserving all this press stuff which has been given to him?
THE GHOST BREAKERCHARLES GODDARD
Wade, you ain't agoin' to start thet tellin' hell-bent happenin's to come hyar at White Slides?
THE MYSTERIOUS RIDERZANE GREY
Between the women, the Jews and the foreigners this country is not only going to the dogs—its gone—hell bent and hell bound.
THE FALL OF A NATIONTHOMAS DIXON
It's just nice to see something around here that's not hell-bent to shoot something else.
TRADING JEFF AND HIS DOGJAMES ARTHUR KJELGAARD
A second later he had hoisted her to his saddle-bow and was spurring hell-bent-for-leather for the open country.
RUNG HO!TALBOT MUNDY
I heard all about him, and if he isn't downright out of his mind he's hell-bent, as Bill says, on getting killed.
THE LIGHT OF WESTERN STARSZANE GREY
Wal, I reckon as you're so hell-bent on doin' it up brown thet you'll try to fire me off'n the range, too?
THE LIGHT OF WESTERN STARSZANE GREY
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OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO HELL-BENT

  • determined
  • driven
  • hell-bent
  • intent
  • obsessed
  • persistent
  • relentless
  • resolute
  • resolved
  • serious
  • set on
  • single-minded
  • steadfast
  • strong-minded
  • stubborn
  • tenacious
  • unrelenting
  • unwavering
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.