SETTLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does settled mean? 

• SETTLED (adjective)
  The adjective SETTLED has 4 senses:

1. established or decided beyond dispute or doubt

2. established in a desired position or place; not moving about

3. inhabited by colonists

4. not changeable

  Familiarity information: SETTLED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SETTLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Established or decided beyond dispute or doubt

Context example:

with details of the wedding settled she could now sleep at night

Similar:

accomplished; effected; established (settled securely and unconditionally)

appointed; decreed; ordained; prescribed (fixed or established especially by order or command)

determined; dictated; set (determined or decided upon as by an authority)

deterministic (an inevitable consequence of antecedent sufficient causes)

firm (not subject to revision or change)

preconcerted (previously arranged or agreed on)

Antonym:

unsettled (still in doubt)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Established in a desired position or place; not moving about

Context example:

the advent of settled civilization

Similar:

based (having a base of operations (often used as a combining form))

built-up (peopled with settlers)

located; placed; set; situated (situated in a particular spot or position)

nonnomadic (not nomadic or wandering)

relocated; resettled (settled in a new location)

Antonym:

unsettled (not settled or established)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Inhabited by colonists

Synonyms:

colonised; colonized; settled

Similar:

inhabited (having inhabitants; lived in)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Not changeable

Context example:

a period of settled weather

Similar:

calm ((of weather) free from storm or wind)

 Context examples 

Everything was settled, and he would enter into possession next day.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It crossed my mind immediately that you would not regret your friend's leaving Highbury, for the sake of her being settled so well.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Captain Benwick must give up his room to them, and get another bed elsewhere; and the whole was settled.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Almost before she knew where she was, Jo found herself married and settled at Plumfield.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But I had just settled within myself to ask the Miss Steeles to spend a few days with us.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Jupiter, the planet of good fortune, is now settled into your tenth house of honors, awards, and achievement, spreading his sunshine.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Silence settled down again over the lonely land.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

You may imagine how delightful it was to my feelings, Copperfield, to see the matter settled with it, and Mrs. Micawber recover her spirits.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It is not a settled thing, ma'am, yet.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

But, my dearest Catherine, have you settled what to wear on your head tonight?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)