Word Meanings - STEADFAST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Firmly fixed or established; fast fixed; firm. "This steadfast globe of earth." Spenser. 2. Not fickle or wavering; constant; firm; resolute; unswerving; steady. "Steadfast eye." Shak. Abide steadfast unto him in the time of his

Additional info about word: STEADFAST

1. Firmly fixed or established; fast fixed; firm. "This steadfast globe of earth." Spenser. 2. Not fickle or wavering; constant; firm; resolute; unswerving; steady. "Steadfast eye." Shak. Abide steadfast unto him in the time of his trouble. Ecclus. xxii. 23. Whom resist steadfast in the faith. 1 Pet. v. 9.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of STEADFAST)

• Fast
• Firm
• secure
• fixed
• constant
• steadfast
• stable
• unyielding
• Unswerving
• rapid
• accelerated
• wild
• reckless
• dissipated
• pay
• strong
• solid
• established
• rooted
• immovable
• robust
• unshaken
• sturdy
• resolute
• determined
• decided
• attached
• Irremovable
• Immovable
• firm
• riveted
• Resolute
• Determined
• steady
• persevering
• stout
• pertinacious
• energetic
• dogged
• stout-hearted
• inflexible
• undaunted
• undeviating
• unflinching
• Stable
• unwavering
• durable
• stanch
• permanent
• firmly fixed
• lasting
• perpetual

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of STEADFAST)

• Loosen
• betray
• surrender
• expose
• imperil
• endanger
• open
• liberate
• free

Related words: (words related to STEADFAST)

• PERSEVERANCE
  Continuance in a state of grace until it is succeeded by a state of glory; sometimes called final perseverance, and the perseverance of the saints. See Calvinism. Syn. -- Persistence; steadfastness; constancy; steadiness; pertinacity. (more info)
• SOLIDARE
  A small piece of money. Shak.
• STANCH
  akin to Pr., Sp., & Pg. estancar, It. stancare to weary, LL. stancare, stagnare, to stanch, fr. L. stagnare to be or make 1. To stop the flowing of, as blood; to check; also, to stop the flowing of blood from; as, to stanch a wound. Iron or a stone
• LAST
  of Last, to endure, contracted from lasteth. Chaucer.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• RAPID
  1. Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion. Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels. Milton. 2. Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth;
• PERSEVER
  To persevere.
• DISSIPATIVE
  Tending to dissipate. Dissipative system , an assumed system of matter and motions in which forces of friction and resistances of other kinds are introduced without regard to the heat or other molecular actions which they generate; -- opposed to
• LASTERY
  A red color. Spenser.
• UNDAUNTABLE
  Incapable of being daunted; intrepid; fearless; indomitable. Bp. Hall.
• IRREMOVABLE
  Not removable; immovable; inflexible. Shak. -- Ir`re*mov"a*bly, adv.
• LASTE
  of Last, to endure. Chaucer.
• STANCHLESS
  1. Incapable of being stanched, or stopped. 2. Unquenchable; insatiable. Shak.
• RAPIDNESS
  Quality of being rapid; rapidity.
• STABLENESS
  The quality or state of being stable, or firmly established; stability.
• ACCELERATOR
  One who, or that which, accelerates. Also as an adj.; as, accelerator nerves.
• ROOTCAP
  A mass of parenchym
• SOLIDUNGULA
  A tribe of ungulates which includes the horse, ass, and related species, constituting the family Equidæ.
• DECIDER
  One who decides.
• STABLEBOY; STABLEMAN
  A boy or man who attends in a stable; a groom; a hostler.
• PROPLASTIC
  Forming a mold.
• POSTABLE
  Capable of being carried by, or as by, post. W. Montagu.
• ODONTOPLAST
  An odontoblast.
• INTESTABLE
  Not capable of making a will; not legally qualified or competent to make a testament. Blackstone.
• REFIX
  To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller.
• EVERLASTINGLY
  In an everlasting manner.
• PROOTIC; PROOETIC
  In front of the auditory capsule; -- applied especially to a bone, or center of ossification, in the periotic capsule. -- n.
• CONSTABLESS
  The wife of a constable.
• AFFIX
  figere to fasten: cf. OE. affichen, F. afficher, ultimately fr. L. 1. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to
• LABIOPLASTY
  A plastic operation for making a new lip, or for replacing a lost tissue of a lip.
• APLASTIC
  Not plastic or easily molded.
• EMPLASTER
  See WISEMAN (more info) plaster or salve, fr. Gr.
• STOMATOPLASTIC
  Of or pertaining to the operation of forming a mouth where the aperture has been contracted, or in any way deformed.
• MONOPLAST
  A monoplastic element.
• DEFIX
  To fix; to fasten; to establish. "To defix their princely seat . . . in that extreme province." Hakluyt.
• AFFIXION
  Affixture. T. Adams.