From Latin resolutus ("released"), past participle of resolvō ("I release, I unbind").

• IPA: /ˈɹɛ.zəˌl(j)uːt/, /ˌɹɛ.zəˈl(j)uːt/

resolute

1. Firm, unyielding, determined.

   She was resolute in her determination to resist his romantic advances.

   He was resolute in his decision to stay.

   • c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act V, scene iv]:

     Edward is at hand, / Ready to fight; therefore be resolute.

   • a. 1887 (date written), Emily Dickinson, “I'm the little “Heart's Ease”!”, in Martha Dickinson Bianchi and Alfred Leete Hampson, editors, Further Poems of Emily Dickinson, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, published 1929, page 69 ↗:

     If the Coward Bumble Bee / In his chimney corner stay, / I, must resoluter be!

2. (obsolete) Convinced; satisfied; sure.

• See also Thesaurus:obstinate

• irresolute

• French: résolu, résolue, ferme, déterminé, déterminée
• German: entschieden, entschlossen, resolut
• Portuguese: resoluto, resoluta
• Russian: непоколеби́мый
• Spanish: resoluto

resolute (plural resolutes)

1. A determined person; one showing resolution.
2. (maths) A projection onto an arbitrary vector.

   vector resolute