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settled
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective settled has 4 senses
- settled(a = adj.all) Array - established or decided beyond dispute or doubt; "with details of the wedding settled she could now sleep at night" Antonym: unsettled
- settled(a = adj.all) Array - established in a desired position or place; not moving about; "nomads...absorbed among the settled people"; "settled areas"; "I don't feel entirely settled here"; "the advent of settled civilization" Antonym: unsettled
- settled(s = adj.all) colonised, colonized - inhabited by colonists; Array
- settled(s = adj.all) Array - not changeable; "a period of settled weather"
THESAURUS
settled
SOL, acquitted, agreed, all bets off, all off, all over, all up, all up with, anchored, arranged, ascertained, assigned, assured, at an end, attested, authenticated, beat, beaten, bent, bested, borne out, canceled, certain, certified, chronic, circumstantiated, colonized, compacted, complete, concluded, confirmed, confounded, constant, contracted, corroborated, covenanted, dead, decided, decisive, deep-dyed, deep-engraven, deep-fixed, deep-grounded, deep-laid, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, defeated, defunct, deleted, demonstrated, deployed, determinate, determined, discharged, discomfited, done, done for, done in, done with, down, dyed-in-the-wool, embedded, embosomed, embossed, empeopled, emplaced, ended, engaged, engrafted, engraved, ensconced, entrenched, established, etched, expended, expunged, extinct, fallen, fast, fastened, fini, finished, firm, firmly established, fixed, flinty, floored, graven, guaranteed, hired, hors de combat, immovable, implanted, impressed, imprinted, in the bag, incorrigible, inculcated, indelibly impressed, infixed, inflexible, ingrained, ingrown, inhabited, installed, instilled, intent, inveterate, inwrought, irreversible, kaput, lambasted, lathered, licked, liquidated, located, long-established, loyal, made sure, nailed down, occupied, old-line, on a rock, on bedrock, on ice, on the skids, open-and-shut, outdone, over, overborne, overcome, overmastered, overmatched, overpowered, overridden, overthrown, overturned, overwhelmed, paid, paid in full, panicked, peopled, perfected, placed, planted, populated, populous, positioned, posted, postpaid, prepaid, promised, proved, proven, put to rout, receipted, remitted, resolute, resolved, riveted, rooted, routed, ruined, salaried, scattered, sealed, seated, secure, set, set at rest, settled in habit, shot, shown, signed, silenced, situate, situated, skinned, skinned alive, sot, spent, spotted, stabilized, stampeded, staple, stated, stationed, staunch, steadfast, steady, steely, stipulated, substantiated, sworn, tenanted, terminated, tested, thorough, through, through with, tried, trimmed, trounced, true, unbending, undeflectable, undertaken, undone, unflappable, unshaken, unswerving, unyielding, upset, validated, verified, vested, waged, warranted, washed up, well-established, well-founded, well-grounded, well-set, well-settled, whelmed, whipped, wiped out, worsted, wound up, zappedROGET THESAURUS
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End
N end, close, termination, desinence, conclusion, finis, finale, period, term, terminus, endpoint, last, omega, extreme, extremity, gable end, butt end, fag-end, tip, nib, point, tail, verge, tag, peroration, bonne bouche, bottom dollar, tail end, rear guard, consummation, denouement, finish, fate, doom, doomsday, crack of doom, day of Judgment, dies irae, fall of the curtain, goal, destination, limit, determination, expiration, expiry, extinction, extermination, death, end of all things, finality, eschatology, break up, commencement de la fin, last stage, turning point, coup de grace, deathblow, knock-out-blow, sockdolager, ending, final, terminal, definitive, crowning, last, ultimate, hindermost, rear, caudal, vergent, conterminate, conterminous, conterminable, ended, at an end, settled, decided, over, played out, set at rest, conclusive, penultimate, last but one, last but two, unbegun, uncommenced, fresh, finally, in fine, at the last, once for all, as high as Heaven and as deep as hell, deficit omne quod nascitur, en toute chose il faut considerer la fin, finem respice, ultimus Romanorum.Stability
N stability, immutability, unchangeability unchangeableness, constancy, stable equilibrium, immobility, soundness, vitality, stabiliment, stiffness, ankylosis, solidity, aplomb, establishment, fixture, rock, pillar, tower, foundation, leopard's spots, Ethiopia's skin, permanence, obstinacy, unchangeable, immutable, unaltered, unalterable, not to be changed, constant, permanent, invariable, undeviating, stable, durable, perennial, fixed, steadfast, firm, fast, steady, balanced, confirmed, valid, fiducial, immovable, irremovable, riveted, rooted, settled, established, vested, incontrovertible, stereotyped, indeclinable, tethered, anchored, moored, at anchor, on a rock, rock solid, firm as a rock, firmly seated, firmly established, deep-rooted, ineradicable, inveterate, obstinate, transfixed, stuck fast, aground, high and dry, stranded, stuck, jammed, unremovable, quiescent, deterioration, indefeasible, irretrievable, intransmutable, incommutable, irresoluble, irrevocable, irreversible, reverseless, inextinguishable, irreducible, indissoluble, indissolvable, indestructible, undying, imperishable, incorruptible, indelible, indeciduous, insusceptible, insusceptible of change, Int, stet, littera scripta manet.
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