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)
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 - APLASTIC
Not plastic or easily molded. - LABIOPLASTY
A plastic operation for making a new lip, or for replacing a lost tissue of a lip. - 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.