1. dead set - Noun
2. dead set - Adjective
3. dead set - Adjective Satellite
fixed in your purpose
Source: WordNetdead-set
I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball. George Steinbrenner
I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges. Richard Russo
I didn't find out she was actually the Queen of the Fey until some time later. Bit of a shock, but I think we could've made a go of it, if she hadn't been so dead set on wiping out the human race. Tom Holt
I've always been dead set against festivals - really suspicious and wary. Elton John
bent on going to the theater Source: Internet
dead set against intervening Source: Internet