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Synonyms of focused

• adjective

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  as in involved
  

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  as in concentrated
  

• verb

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  as in centered
  

• as in involved
• as in concentrated
• as in centered

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Synonyms for Focused:

• adj.

  • all (adjective)

  • focused.

  • deep (adjective)

  • wrapped up,
  • preoccupied.

  • Other relevant words: (adjective)

  • directed,
  • deep.

• n.

  •
  • fixated,
  • alert,
  • concerned,
  • attentive,
  • under someone’s critical eye,
  • regard.
  •
  • show up,
  • obvious,
  • plain,
  • manifest,
  • noticeable,
  • perceptible,
  • identifiable,
  • apparent,
  • visible,
  • distinct.

  • adjusted (noun)

  • adjusted.

  • centralised (noun)

  • centralised.

  • concentrated (noun)

  • concentrated.

  • convergent (noun)

  • convergent.

  • focused (noun)

  • in focus.

  • Other relevant words: (noun)

  • centered,
  • centred,
  • centralized,
  • a battery,
  • focussed.

• v.

  • converged (verb)

  • united,
  • Intercepted,
  • Approached,
  • merged,
  • Met.

  • focused (verb)

  • Intersected,
  • Converged,
  • Rallied,
  • gathered,
  • funneled.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • eagle eye,
  • staked out,
  • immersion,
  • watchful,
  • vigilance,
  • center stage,
  • fixedly,
  • vigilant,
  • spotlight,
  • center,
  • intensity,
  • attention span.
  •
  • keenly.
  •
  • observation,
  • mind.
  •
  • care.

  • Other relevant words:

  • speculation,
  • attention,
  • direction,
  • cogitation,
  • consideration,
  • concentration,
  • target,
  • musing,
  • pondering,
  • contemplation,
  • intention,
  • thought,
  • object,
  • reflection,
  • absorption,
  • goal,
  • deliberation,
  • point,
  • purpose,
  • aim,
  • objective,
  • intent,
  • meditation,
  • plan.

  • Other relevant words (noun):

  • pinpointed,
  • hearted,
  • engulfed,
  • laid down,
  • trained,
  • intense,
  • focussing,
  • Targeted,
  • sharpened,
  • adapt,
  • earnest,
  • all ears,
  • comprehensive,
  • careful,
  • resolute,
  • lost,
  • Purposed,
  • tapered,
  • Focalized,
  • indefatigable,
  • conscientious,
  • all,
  • paying attention,
  • persistent,
  • exclusive,
  • thorough,
  • Occasioned,
  • meticulous,
  • industrious,
  • constant,
  • accented,
  • focal,
  • Levelled,
  • steadfast,
  • assiduous,
  • absorbed,
  • all-out,
  • joined,
  • intensive,
  • concentrate,
  • diligent,
  • Mattered,
  • stuck on,
  • Aimed,
  • Snapped,
  • Pivoted,
  • undivided,
  • Peered,
  • contracted,
  • condensed,
  • tireless,
  • Riveted,
  • persevering,
  • engrossed,
  • central,
  • Pored,
  • Heightened,
  • rapt,
  • Listened,
  • Plunged,
  • steady,
  • spotlighted,
  • Issued,
  • cerebrate,
  • intensified,
  • hard-working,
  • cored,
  • sedulous,
  • fixed,
  • painstaking,
  • focus,
  • stressed,
  • punctilious,
  • scrupulous,
  • determined,
  • strained,
  • exhaustive,
  • pointed.

How to use «Focused» in context?

Paraphrases for Focused:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    centered, centred, concentrated, focus, focussed.
  • Proper noun, singular
    centered, centred, concentrated, focus, focussed.
  • Verb, past tense
    concentrated.
  • Verb, past participle
    concentrated, orientated.

• Forward Entailment

  • Verb, past tense
    accent.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    well-focused.
  • Verb, past tense
    refocused.
  • Verb, past participle
    refocused.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    accurate, circumscribed, committed, condensed, converging, defined, detailed, determined, devoted, orientated, precise, sharpened, specialised, specific, specified, tailored, well-defined, Converged, concentrates, targeting, highlighted, goal-oriented, results-oriented, targetted, target-oriented, better-targeted.
  • Proper noun, singular
    based, specific, points, highlights.
  • Verb, past tense
    accepted, acknowledged, addressed, affected, affirmed, aim, arranged, assessment, assured, attached, attempted, attended, axis, backed, based, bearing, bore, built, called, caution, centered, centred, changed, checked, chiefly, clarified, collected, committed, concept, concerned, concerning, conducted, conferred, confirmed, considered, constituted, consumed, contained, conveyed, deal, defined, described, designed, disclosed, divided, dressed, drew, dug, elaborated, elected, elevated, emphasise, emphasised, emphasized, employed, employee, encourage, ended, engaged, enrolled, especially, essentially, established, evaporated, expanded, expressed, extended, fell, felt, foster, fostering, found, founded, frequently, gate, gathered, geared, granted, handled, headed, heard, held, implied, included, increase, intensified, invested, joined, landed, lay, led, lent, made, mainly, marked, massed, measured, more, moved, notably, noted, often, oriented, outlined, paid, perceived, permitted, pertain, placed, plotted, plus, population, porter, predominantly, preferred, presented, pressed, primarily, principal, principally, prioritize, privileged, processed, produced, productivity, promote, proved, pursued, put, raised, raising, read, received, recognized, reflected, reinforced, reported, represented, requested, rest, retained, revealed, revolved, saw, senior, sent, shed, shot, sought, specialised, specific, specified, spoke, spread, staged, stressed, struck, studied, suggested, supported, tailored, thereto, thought, tied, tightened, touched, transmitted, treated, treatment, tried, turned, understood, used, wanted, works, Accounted, Achieved, Acted, Activities, Addressing, Advocated, Aimed, Allowed, Amounted, Appealed, Approached, Argued, Arose, Asked, Assessed, Attracted, Awarded, Was, Became, Began, Believed, Boosted, Brought, Came, Capitalized, Captured, Cared, Carried, Caught, Caused, Chaired, Channeled, Chose, Cited, Dealt, Deliberated, Delivered, Demanded, Did, Discussed, Displayed, Earmarked, Enabled, Encompassed, Envisaged, Establishing, Everything, Evolved, Examined, Explored, Filed, Followed, Gave, Went, Got, Grew, Had, Happened, Helped, Indicated, Inquired, Insisted, Intervened, Introduced, Investigated, Knocked, Launched, Leaned, Levelled, Looked, Meant, Met, Mentioned, Occurred, Offered, Operated, Oversaw, Passed, Performed, Persisted, Pertained, Ran, Ranged, Reached, Referred, Regarded, Reiterated, Relating, Relied, Remarked, Rendered, Responded, Resulted, Searched, Served, Shifted, Tackled, Took, Talked, Targeted, Told, Tended, Towards, Trafficking, Undertook, Urged, Viewed, Visited, Wore, Were, Widened, Wished, Worked, Yielded, Porte, Commended, Commented, Consisted, Containing, Contemplated, Contributed, Converged, Corresponded, Proceeded, Promoted, Provided, Spanned, Stayed, Steered, Stipulated, Strapped, Strived, Strove, Submitted, Surveyed, Grants, employees, accords, courses, showed, ensured, allocated, awards, themes, presses, reviewed, specializing, recalled, withheld, reaffirmed, highlighted, underscored, laid, Favoured, analysed, endeavoured, harboured, cryopreserved, targetted, prioritised, ‘d.
  • Verb, past participle
    abused, accepted, accomplished, accused, adapted, added, addressed, adjusted, adopted, affected, aligned, allotted, amended, analyzed, anticipated, approved, arrested, articulated, assembled, assigned, associated, assured, attached, attempted, attended, authorized, axis, backed, based, become, bet, biased, born, bound, bounded, built, called, centered, centred, changed, characterized, charged, checked, chosen, circumscribed, clarified, clustered, collected, come, commensurate, committed, completed, concerned, condemned, conducted, confined, connected, consecrated, considered, consolidated, consumed, contained, credited, crowded, damaged, declared, deducted, defined, delimited, deprived, described, designated, designed, desired, destined, detailed, determined, devalued, developed, devoted, diverted, divided, documented, dominated, done, doomed, drawn, elaborated, elected, embedded, embodied, emphasised, emphasized, employed, enclosed, endorsed, enforced, engaged, entitled, entrenched, especially, established, evaporated, expanded, expected, expended, expressed, extended, facilitated, fallen, fastened, favour, felt, filmed, foreseen, formed, found, founded, framed, frozen, furnished, gathered, geared, given, gone, governed, granted, grouped, grown, guaranteed, guided, handled, harmonised, have, head, headed, heard, heated, held, help, hired, ignored, impacted, implemented, impregnated, improved, inclined, included, incorporated, induced, initiated, integrated, invested, item, joined, keyed, known, learned, leased, led, lent, lifted, linked, listed, loaded, located, lost, made, marked, matched, measured, minded, moved, named, narrowed, noted, obliged, obsessed, occupied, operations, organised, organized, oriented, outlined, paid, permitted, pinned, placed, planned, played, posted, postponed, powered, precedence, predominantly, preferred, preoccupied, prepared, presented, pressed, principally, privileged, processed, produced, prolonged, protected, proved, proven, published, pulled, pursued, put, raised, ranked, received, recognised, recognized, recorded, reduced, reflected, registered, reinforced, released, reported, represented, reserved, resolved, restrained, retained, revealed, reversed, revised, revolved, risen, rooted, rotated, ruled, run, said, sanctioned, scheduled, scope, search, secured, seeded, seen, seized, sent, separated, settled, shaped, shared, sharpened, shot, shouldered, situated, skewed, solved, sought, specialised, specific, specified, spoken, spread, strained, strengthened, stressed, struck, structured, studied, substantiated, suggested, suited, supported, sworn, tailored, taken, task, thought, thrown, tied, tightened, tilted, touched, transmitted, treated, treaty, tried, turned, used, utilised, utilized, valued, versed, wanted, washed, wasted, wedded, weighted, worried, wrapped, written, Accentuated, Accorded, Accounted, Achieved, Acted, Activities, Administered, Advocated, Afforded, Aimed, Allowed, Anchored, Appealed, Approached, Argued, Ascribed, Asked, Assessed, Attacked, Attracted, Attributed, Awarded, Been, Borne, Begun, Boosted, Borrowed, Brought, Capitalized, Captured, Cared, Carried, Caught, Caused, Challenged, Channelled, Dealt, Delivered, Delved, Deployed, Disbursed, Discriminated, Discussed, Displayed, Drafted, Earmarked, Embarked, Enabled, Encountered, Entailed, Entered, Evolved, Examined, Exercised, Exerted, Explained, Explored, Fought, Filed, Followed, Forwarded, Gained, Generated, Gotten, Got, Had, Handcuffed, Has, Helped, Hinged, Housed, Incurred, Indicated, Inflicted, Influenced, Inserted, Insisted, Introduced, Investigated, Invoked, Issued, Launched, Levelled, Loaned, Lodged, Looked, Lumped, Lured, Mapped, Meant, Met, Mentioned, Mobilized, Ourselves, Notified, Obtained, Offered, Operated, Passed, Performed, Picked, Piped, Polarized, Questioned, Reached, Referred, Regarded, Relied, Rendered, Resorted, Resulted, Riveted, Served, Shifted, Shown, Singled, Tackled, Talked, Targeted, Tempted, Tended, Termed, Transferred, Undergone, Underpinned, Undertaken, Upheld, Urged, Viewed, Visited, Worked, Yielded, Communicated, Comprised, Consisted, Contemplated, Contributed, Convened, Converged, Corresponded, Created, Pooled, Predicated, Profiled, Progressed, Promoted, Prompted, Provided, Staked, Stationed, Steered, Strapped, Strived, Striven, Subjected, started, Submitted, Suffered, Surveyed, Efforts, Programs, undermined, finalized, evaluated, refers, posts, fixated, circulated, ensured, allocated, replaced, interrogated, positioned, mandated, reviewed, recalled, withheld, interviewed, leveraged, opted, reallocated, spearheaded, highlighted, demarcated, headquartered, sponsored, reminded, underscored, monitored, laid, Favoured, analysed, doubled, endeavoured, mobilised, polarised, 2003, cryopreserved, targetted, prioritised.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    concerned, oriented, purposeful, Targeted, well-targeted.
  • Proper noun, singular
    oriented, Targeted.
  • Verb, past tense
    devoted, discussion.

Homophones for Focused:

• focussed.

Omophagic

Synonyms:

herbivorous,
omnivorous.

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4

A one word (adjective), but depending on the context which is hard to judge, maybe acute, sharp or fixated. Applied to martial arts a common two words combination is «intense/impeccable concentration/focus».

1

I would suggest ‘purposeful’ as a more appropriate synonym to ‘focused’ than some of the words already mentioned, none of which really captures the nuanced meaning of focused. Rapt can only be used naturally in certain contexts. Alternatively maybe a phrase rather than a word is needed to properly convey the same meaning.

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Unswerving might work in that context.