single-minded

Preposition: about

• salvation: So look for someone who's single-minded about salvation.

Modifies a noun

• devotion: We must not forget his single-minded devotion to God's law.
• determination: Working in what was then very much a man's world, she pursued her ambition to become a great artist with single-minded determination.
• obsession: The fact that they are united by a single-minded obsession about customers.
• pursuit: In the single-minded pursuit of their subjects, some academics become detached from the ordinary things of life.
• dedication: Everything you could need for two wheels, with a single-minded dedication to provide the best possible customer service.
• focus: I expect the same kind of single-minded focus from the client.

Modifying Another Word

• very: Waddell, however, was a very single-minded man who mixed a clear vision of what he wanted with the determination to achieve it.
• not: If you're not single-minded and tough in these instances, your entrepreneurial activity is pretty meaningless.
• so: But what crowd was ever so numerous, or so single-minded?
• also: The key in a racing driver's character is to be ambitious, ruthless and also single-minded.

Used with adjective complement

• remain: It comes from courage to speak out and remaining single-minded.