determined

adj

1. Decided; resolute, possessing much determination; dogged.

   “I'm determined to get a good grade on my exam.”

   “Shortly after midnight a determined attempt was made to wreck a portion of Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-on-Avon, by means of an explosive bomb.”

   “The result of this is that today in most parts of the Western World even the most determined opponents of socialism derive from socialist sources their knowledge on most subjects on which they have no firsthand information.”

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of determine