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Definition of Steady
Steady

Firm in standing or position; not tottering or shaking; fixed; firm.

Constant in feeling, purpose, or pursuit; not fickle, changeable, or wavering; not easily moved or persuaded to alter a purpose; resolute; as, a man steady in his principles, in his purpose, or in the pursuit of an object.

Regular; constant; undeviating; uniform; as, the steady course of the sun; a steady breeze of wind.

To make steady; to hold or keep from shaking, reeling, or falling; to make or keep firm; to support; to make constant, regular, or resolute.

To become steady; to regain a steady position or state; to move steadily.

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Steady Quotations

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
Thomas Jefferson

Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Adlai E. Stevenson

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
Winston Churchill

Steady Translations

steady in Italian is continuo, proporzionato
steady in Latin is constans


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