committed
adjective
com·mit·ted kə-ˈmi-təd 
1
: placed in confinement (as in a mental institution)
committed patients
2
: having made a pledge or commitment to someone (such as a romantic partner) or something (such as a cause)
committed partners
a committed parent/teacher
strongly committed to the fight for equal rights
also : characterized by such a pledge or commitment
two people in a committed relationship
Word History
First Known Use
1646, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Phrases Containing committed
committed 1 of 2
adjective
as in pledged
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- pledged
- promised
- engaged
- betrothed
- affianced
- spousal
- married
- espoused
- bridal
- wifely
- wedded
- marital
- prenuptial
- matched
- matrimonial
- conjugal
- mated
- nuptial
- connubial
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- nonmarital
committed
2 of 2verb
1
as in accomplished
to carry through (as a process) to completion accused of committing a felony Synonyms & Similar Words
- accomplished
- executed
- fulfilled
- achieved
- performed
- made
- did
- prosecuted
- perpetrated
- implemented
- carried out
- negotiated
- completed
- finished
- carried off
- brought off
- put through
- realized
- went through
- pulled off
- practiced
- effected
- compassed
- effectuated
- brought about
- attained
- repeated
- practised
- followed through (with)
- nailed
- actualized
- reenacted
- ended
- aced
- engaged (in)
- reduplicated
- worked (at)
- wound up
- winded up
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- failed
- slighted
- slurred
- skimped
2
as in vowed
to obligate by prior agreement we were committed to finishing the project Synonyms & Similar Words
- pledged
- vowed
- engaged
- promised
- swore
- mortgaged
- trothed
- enrolled
- enlisted
- betrothed
- affianced
- signed on
- contracted
- plighted
- signed up
- overcommitted
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- reneged
3
as in left
to put (something) into the possession or safekeeping of another commit only some power to each official Synonyms & Similar Words
- left
- handed
- transferred
- entrusted
- delivered
- delegated
- commended
- gave
- recommended
- trusted
- passed
- relinquished
- consigned
- vested
- confided
- transmitted
- handed over
- turned over
- intrusted
- submitted
- assigned
- granted
- loaned
- reposed
- distributed
- divided
- bequeathed
- gave over
- recommitted
- conferred
- lent
- supplied
- furnished
- dispensed
- surrendered
- dispersed
- handed in
- released
- willed
- turned in
- advanced
- yielded
- handed down
- handed on
- dealt (out)
- retransferred
- redelivered
- retransmitted
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- kept
- held
- retained
- owned
- reserved
- possessed
- accepted
- received
- withheld
- occupied
- detained
- held back
- took
- took over
- took in
4
as in imprisoned
to put in or as if in prison committed the rapist to prison Synonyms & Similar Words
- imprisoned
- jailed
- incarcerated
- interned
- confined
- arrested
- restrained
- detained
- caught
- immured
- apprehended
- restricted
- captured
- constrained
- limited
- jugged
- bound
- kept
- locked (up)
- impressed
- barred
- shut
- seized
- nabbed
- held
- gated
- busted
- shanghaied
- shackled
- handcuffed
- pinched
- picked up
- fettered
- impounded
- enchained
- manacled
- trammelled
- bust
- trammeled
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- liberated
- released
- freed
- discharged
- emancipated
- enfranchised
- manumitted
- unbound
- unfettered
- unchained
- uncaged
- lily
- lily family
- lily green
- lily iron
- lily of the Incas
- lily of the Nile
- lily of the valley
- lily pad
- lily thorn
- lily white
- lily whites
- lily-like
- lily-livered
- lily-of-the-valley shrub
- lily-of-the-valley tree
- lily-trotter
- lily-white
- lily-whites
- lilylike
- lilyturf
- lilyturfs
- lilyturves
- lim
- Lima
- lima bean