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Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a steady manner; firmly; fixedly; steadfastly; intently; without wavering or flinching; without intermission, deviation, or irregularity; uniformly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a steady manner.
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- adverb In a
steady manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb at a steady rate or pace
- adverb in a steady manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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Omar also welcomed what he described as steadily decreasing tensions surrounding the Western Cape's transport crisis.
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Though a stranger in the house he finally isolated himself in the midst of the company, huddling into a capacious Morris chair and reading steadily from a thin volume he had drawn from his pocket.
Chapter 31 2010
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Mr. Baker has raised plenty of money and run hard, but his inexperience with political atmospherics is reflected in steadily rising disapproval ratings.
Deval Patrick's Charm Offensive Jon Keller 2010
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Voldemort menaces, he gets about — like Sauron, he is always “on the move” or “gathering his forces” — but he never achieves the Sauronic heaviness, that power-drone of malignancy broadcasting steadily from the tower of Barad-dûr.
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Voldemort menaces, he gets about — like Sauron, he is always “on the move” or “gathering his forces” — but he never achieves the Sauronic heaviness, that power-drone of malignancy broadcasting steadily from the tower of Barad-dûr.
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As Congress has debated stimulus and bank bailout packages running into the trillions of dollars, the future has been described in steadily increasing apocalyptic terms.
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Also, Billy stayed away from home longer hours, and was again steadily drinking.
CHAPTER XIV 2010
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But this will result in steadily diminishing cable performance and in the long-term, replacing cables every week or so is not as cheap as it seemed at first.
Resistance is futile: Sealed cable options for a hassle-free cyclocross season. 2010
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In the past half decade the broadway theater has descended steadily from a central, viable part of our national culture (where admission cost two or three times the price of a movie) to a specialized, rarefied tourist attraction (where admission is now at LEAST 9 times that of a movie ticket.)
Rocco Landesman Answers Your Broadway Questions - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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And since there proceeds steadily from the southeastern corner of Europe a stream of events which are a danger to me, which indeed for years threatened my safety and deprived me forever of many benefits, that is to say I know nothing of my own destiny.
Balkan Epic 2007
Related Words
synonyms (141)
Words with the same meaning
- ad infinitum
- always
- at all times
- at every turn
- at regular intervals
- at stated times
- bec et ongles
- bona fide
- calmly
- ceaselessly
- committedly
- composedly
- conservatively
- consistently
- constantly
- continually
- coolly
- daily
- daily and hourly
- day after day
- day and night
- decidedly
- decisively
- determinedly
- devotedly
- dispassionately
- earnestly
- endlessly
- equably
- eternally
- evenly
- ever
- ever and anon
- everlastingly
- every day
- every hour
- every moment
- every so often
- faithfully
- firmly
- fixedly
- hammer and tongs
- heart and soul
- hour after hour
- hourly
- impassively
- imperturbably
- in all seriousness
- in balance
- in earnest
- in good earnest
- in good faith
- in moderation
- in perpetuity
- in reason
- incessantly
- indestructibly
- inexcitably
- infinitely
- inflexibly
- inirritably
- interminably
- intermittently
- invariably
- judiciously
- levelheadedly
- like a bulldog
- like a leech
- like clockwork
- loyally
- methodically
- moderately
- month after month
- never otherwise
- never-endingly
- night and day
- obstinately
- on and on
- orderly
- perdurably
- perennially
- permanently
- perpetually
- perseveringly
- persistently
- placidly
- prudently
- punctually
- purposefully
- quietly
- rapidly
- regularly
- relentlessly
- resolutely
- resolvedly
- responsibly
- restrainedly
- right along
- serenely
- seriously
- sincerely
- singlemindedly
- soberly
- soothingly
- staunchly
- steadfastly
- stodgily
- stoically
- stolidly
- stuffily
- subduedly
- sustainedly
- systematically
- temperately
- tenaciously
- time without end
- tooth and nail
- tranquilly
- unceasingly
- unendingly
- uniformly
- unintermittently
- uninterruptedly
- unswervingly
- unvaryingly
- unyieldingly
- wholeheartedly
- with a will
- with constancy
- with good faith
- with total dedication
- within bounds
- within compass
- within reason
- without cease
- without end
- without exception
- without letup
- without stopping
- world without end
- year after year
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