# committed

Pronunciation: say "kuh-MIT-id" /kəˈmɪtɪd/

## Adjective

1. Showing strong dedication and loyalty to a cause, person, or activity.
   - Simple: Caring deeply about a person, cause, or activity and staying loyal to it.
   - _A committed environmentalist, she organized cleanups in three neighboring towns._
   - _The charity relies on a small group of deeply committed volunteers._
3. Bound to a particular course of action, position, or conclusion, whether by a pledge, an earlier decision, or the logic of what one has already accepted.
   - Simple: Tied to doing or accepting something because of a promise, an earlier choice, or what you already agreed.
   - _By announcing the launch date publicly, the company was committed to shipping on time._
   - _Having taken out the loan, they were committed to years of repayment._
4. Involved in an exclusive romantic relationship with one partner, though not necessarily a permanent one.
   - Simple: Being in a serious relationship with only one partner.
   - _Both of them were committed to each other long before they discussed marriage._
   - _He described himself as fully committed and uninterested in seeing anyone else._

## Verb

2. Simple past and past participle of commit. — simple past and past participle of commit
   - Simple: Simple past and past participle of commit. Use this form for something already done.
   - _The board committed millions of dollars to the research program._
   - _He had committed the entire poem to memory by the end of the week._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/committed (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).