- settled - established or decided beyond dispute or doubt; "with details of the wedding settled she could now sleep at night"
Antonyms: unsettled, doubtful, tentative, open, undecided, undetermined, unresolved
- settled - 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"
Antonyms: unsettled, aimless, drifting, floating, vagrant, erratic, planetary, homeless, stateless, migrant, migratory, mobile, nomadic, peregrine, roving, wandering, peripatetic, wayfaring, rootless, vagabond, unlocated, itinerant
- colonized, colonised, settled - inhabited by colonists
Antonym: uninhabited (indirect, via inhabited)
- defined, formed, settled - clearly defined; "I have no formed opinion about the chances of success"
Antonym: indefinite (indirect, via definite)
- settled - not changeable; "a period of settled weather"
Antonym: stormy (indirect, via calm)
- settle, settle down - settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground; "dust settled on the roofs"
--1 is one way to put, set, place, pose, position, lay
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- decide, settle, resolve, adjudicate - bring to an end; settle conclusively; "The case was decided"; "The judge decided the case in favor of the plaintiff"; "The father adjudicated when the sons were quarreling over their inheritance"
--2 is one way to end, terminate
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun settlement3, noun settler2
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- settle, square off, square up, determine - settle conclusively; come to terms; "We finally settled the argument"
--3 is one way to conclude, resolve
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun settlement3
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- settle, locate - take up residence and become established; "The immigrants settled in the Midwest"
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun settlement6, noun settlement1, noun settlement4, noun settler1
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- reconcile, patch up, make up, conciliate, settle - come to terms; "After some discussion we finally made up"
--5 is one way to agree, hold, concur, concord
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- sink, settle, go down, go under - go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned"
--6 is one way to descend, fall, go down, come down
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- settle, root, take root, steady down, settle down - become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style; "He finally settled down"
--7 is one way to stabilize, stabilise
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- settle - become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet; "The roar settled to a thunder"; "The wind settled in the West"; "it is settling to rain"; "A cough settled in her chest"; "Her mood settled into lethargy"
--8 is one way to become, go, get
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- settle - establish or develop as a residence; "He settled the farm 200 years ago"; "This land was settled by Germans"
--9 is one way to build up, develop
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun settlement6, noun settlement1
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- settle - come to rest
--10 is one way to stop, halt
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun settle1
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- settle - become clear by the sinking of particles; "the liquid gradually settled"
--11 is one way to change
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- settle - arrange or fix in the desired order; "She settled the teacart"
--12 is one way to arrange, set up
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- settle - accept despite complete satisfaction; "We settled for a lower price"
--13 is one way to accept, consent, go for
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun settlement7
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- settle - end a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement; "The two parties finally settled"
--14 is one way to agree, hold, concur, concord
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun settlement3, noun settlement5
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- settle - dispose of; make a financial settlement
--15 is one way to arrange, fix up
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- settle - cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids)
--16 is one way to sink
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun settlings1
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- subside, settle - sink down or precipitate; "the mud subsides when the waters become calm"
--17 is one way to sink, settle, go down, go under
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun settlings1, noun settling1
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- ensconce, settle - fix firmly; "He ensconced himself in the chair"
--18 is one way to put, set, place, pose, position, lay
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- settle, get back - get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury; "I finally settled with my old enemy"
--19 is one way to fight, struggle
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- finalize, finalise, settle, nail down - make final; put the last touches on; put into final form; "let's finalize the proposal"
--20 is one way to end, terminate
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- settle - form a community; "The Swedes settled in Minnesota"
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun settlement6, noun settlement1, noun settler1
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- fall, descend, settle - come as if by falling; "Night fell"; "Silence fell"
--22 is one way to come
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- settle - establish or develop as a residence; "He settled the farm 200 years ago"; "This land was settled by Germans"