Quote
1. Quote - Listen to the quote and guess what the slang means.
“I’m very driven. I’m the kind of person who doesn’t take no for an answer.”
- Pop-punk singer Avril Lavigne on her rise to success. (Blender)
Definition
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highly motivated; ambitious; obsessed with success
2. Use - Learn how the slang is used.
Someone who is driven has a lot of passion and tries really hard to achieve his or her goals. People who are driven seem as though there is a motor inside them that drives them to seek success. You can also say that a really ambitious person “has a lot of drive.”
Avril Lavigne claims that she had to fight hard with her record label to get them to let her keep her punky image. She says that success was not handed to her and that she had to fight hard to be able to be herself and achieve the international success she has. She was very driven, always pushing on when someone tried to stop her.
Examples
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“If you want to become an Olympic athlete you have to be very driven.”
“I think my little brother could go far if he was a little more driven.”