Definition of Steady

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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

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

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

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.
Jim Rohn

I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look.
Lauren Bacall

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.
Lee Iacocca

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Wollstonecraft

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
Alexander Graham Bell

Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.
Harriet Tubman

For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
Ralph Nader

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Joseph Addison

Steady Translations

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

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