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resolute

/ˈɹɛ.zəˌl(j)uːt/adjective, noun

resolute is an adjective meaning “Firm, unyielding, determined” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-S-O-L-U-T-E and has 3 syllables, and it appears 1.3 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Resolute, the name).

What does resolute mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Firm, unyielding, determined.

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

  2. 2

    obsoleteConvinced; satisfied; sure.

noun

  1. 1

    A determined person; one showing resolution.

  2. 2

    A projection onto an arbitrary vector.

    vector resolute

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce resolute?

  • /ˈɹɛ.zəˌl(j)uːt/
  • /ˌɹɛ.zəˈl(j)uːt/

Resolute has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-resolute.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of resolute

  • more resolute comparative
  • most resolute superlative
  • resolutes plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is resolute?

Resolute appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 24,745th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Resolute, the name.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Resolute in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense firm, unyielding, determined:

LanguageWords
Frenchrésolu, résolue, ferme, déterminé, déterminée
Germanentschieden, entschlossen, resolut
Portugueseresoluto, resoluta
Spanishresoluto

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does resolute come from?

From Latin resolutus (“released”), past participle of resolvō (“to release, to unbind”) (re- + solvō, whence solve). Compare typologically Russian реши́тельный (rešítelʹnyj) (< реши́ть (rešítʹ)).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).