# focused

Pronunciation: say "FOH-kuhst" US /ˈfoʊ.kəst/, UK /ˈfəʊ.kəst/

## Adjective

1. Giving all of one's effort and attention to achieving a particular goal.
   - Simple: Giving all your attention and effort to reaching one goal.
   - _The team remained focused on delivering the project before the deadline._
   - _Investors stayed focused on long-term growth despite the sudden market dip._
3. Concerned with a narrowly defined part of a broader subject or phenomenon.
   - Simple: Looking closely at only a small part of a bigger subject.
   - _The report is narrowly focused on coastal erosion rather than climate change as a whole._
   - _Her dissertation is tightly focused on one decade of postwar literature._

## Verb

2. Simple past and past participle of focus. — simple past and past participle of focus
   - Simple: Simple past and past participle of focus. Use this form for something that already happened, or after has, have or was.
   - _The scientist focused the microscope on the tiny tissue sample._
   - _They focused their efforts on rebuilding the bridge after the flood._

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