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Definition: Steadily |
SteadilyAdverb1. At a steady rate or pace; "his interest eroded steadily". 2. In a steady manner; "he could still walk steadily". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "steadily" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1379. (references) |
Synonym: SteadilySynonym: steady (adv). (additional references) |
| Antonym: unsteadily (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Steadily |
| English words defined with "steadily": Anti-trade, away ♦ boding, build, build up ♦ DC, diligent, direct current, draw ♦ fastened, fixed, foreboding, forge ♦ glowing ♦ Heliostat ♦ marching ♦ persevering, premonition, presentiment, progress ♦ Sea legs, Spoom ♦ To be on the watch, To fasten one's eyes upon ♦ work up. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "steadily": autokinetic illusion ♦ Bird solid-bowl centrifuge ♦ chippy user, custom-design technologies ♦ hydraulic classifier ♦ Imminent Death Of The Net Predicted! ♦ Lava tube, lead connector ♦ Mean anomaly, Michmash, minimum gliding angle ♦ Pregnancy-Associated alpha-Plasma Protein, Pregnancy-Associated beta-Plasma Protein, Pregnancy-Specific beta 1-Glycoprotein, Pulmonary Fibrosis ♦ regressive burning, relaxed oscillation, Ropp furnace ♦ Slumland ♦ Vooys process ♦ watthour. (references) |
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Screenplays | The 3 choppers are steadily approaching what has unanimously agreed to be the front of these spaceships, a parabolic indentation 9 city blocks in diameter. (Independence Day; writing credit: Dean Devlin; Roland Emmerich) | |
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 | Line graph showing death rates from leading causes of death in persons aged 25-44 years, United States, 1982-1994. AIDS death rates steadily increased to become, in 1993, the leading cause of death in this age group. Credit: CDC. |  | Willie Cameron said steadily, I wouldn't tell you ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The boys skimmed swiftly over the muddy bottom, going steadily downward as the light grew less and less. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | 'Si, Presidente Duarte, you can tell them in Washington that El Savador continues to move steadily towards democracy' / Oliphant. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Hoisting bundles of sugarcane into boxcars near Delcambre, Louisiana. Due to difficulty in getting boxcars farmers had to wait for two or three days with loaded wagons. Sucrose content of cane was decreasing steadily. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mitchell Field. The side gun of an American bomber gets plenty of work during an air battle. Manned by a brave, able, well-equipped gunner, it's one of the tools that is steadily thinning out Japanazi air power. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Production. Zinc. A mountain of waste rock grows steadily outside a zinc concentrator. From the Eagle-Picher plant near Cardin, Oklahoma, come great quantities of zinc and lead to serve many important purposes in the war effort. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Convoy. Silhouetted against a tropical sky, an American convoy plods steadily across the broad Pacific. Ships like these and the naval vessels and planes that protect them are maintaining the "bridges of boats" that link us with our far-flung battle front. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Convoy. The men and guns of the naval vessels that protect our merchant convoys are ready for any emergency at any time. A bluejacket keeps alert watch over ships plodding steadily across the Atlantic to bring vital supplies to our allies and to our own f. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Consolidated Coal Company, Lake Creek Mine, Johnston City, Illinois. Abandoned. This mine will never work again. Williamson County, Illinois once produced 11,000,000 tons of coal a year and led the state in output. Since 1923, output has steadily declined. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Charles Darwin | I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as the facts are shown to be opposed to it. |
Martha Gellhorn | I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events. |
| Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed. | |
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John Locke | 1690 | This rule, which the infinite wise maker hath set to the works of his hands, we find the inferior creatures steadily obey. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | And he steadily resisted all my attempts to return to the subject of Lady Muriel until the evening had almost worn itself away. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The stranger looked at him steadily. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The motor droned along steadily and the sun receded down the sky in front of them. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | In this town the price of wood rises almost steadily, and the only question is, how much higher it is to be this year than it was the last. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | It affects how steadily your heart beats. (references) | |
Graft and patient survival is increasing steadily. (references) | ||
The prevalence of the disease increases steadily from the fourth decade. (references) | ||
Business | The charge card segment is growing steadily. (references) | |
Imports from these companies are growing steadily. (references) | ||
Domestic office furniture demand is growing steadily. (references) | ||
Children | Jordan | Declining economic conditions have caused the number of these children to increase steadily over the last 10 years. (references) |
Bangladesh | Attendance rates drop steadily with age; according to the Government, approximately 70 percent of all children complete grade 5. To serve the maximum number of children with limited facilities, most schools have two shifts. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Cuba | The Government attempts to shape media coverage to such a degree that it not only continued to exert pressure on domestic journalists but also steadily pressured groups normally outside the official realm of control, such as visiting international correspondents. (references) |
Economic History | Nepal | Sales may continue to grow steadily. (references) |
Oman | Poultry production is steadily rising. (references) | |
Mexico | Forestry exploitation is increasing steadily. (references) | |
Human Rights | Kenya | While the prison population has increased steadily over the last several years, prison facilities have not. (references) |
Indonesia | Law and order continued to deteriorate steadily, and in June 2000, violent mobs stormed through Ambon city with little or no security force interference. (references) | |
Suriname | Of those held in police custody or detention cells, a steadily growing number already had been convicted but not yet placed in prisons due to a lack of space in prison facilities. (references) | |
Political Economy | TAIWAN | Financial: Taiwan continues to steadily liberalize its financial sector. (references) |
Laos | BILATERAL RELATIONS BETWEEN THE U.S. AND LAOS HAVE IMPROVED STEADILY IN RECENT YEARS. (references) | |
West Bank | Political support for groups that support the peace process has been steadily growing. (references) | |
Trade | Greece | The bond market has been developing steadily. (references) |
Romania | Since 1990, the Romanian currency (Leu - ROL) has depreciated steadily. (references) | |
Turkey | The sector's five and ten largest banks also have seen their share of assets decline steadily since financial sector liberalization began to take hold in 1985. Turkish banks engage in core banking services, securities brokering and other businesses. (references) | |
Travel | Latvia | MEDICAL FACILITIES: Medical care in Latvia is steadily improving but remains limited in several important respects. (references) |
Worker Rights | Qatar | The frequency of such strikes is steadily increasing. (references) |
South Africa | Union membership in the private sector has continued to decline steadily in recent years as a result of job layoffs and declining formal sector employment, including in industries that have been heavily unionized, such as mining and manufacturing. (references) | |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | With our Indian neighbors the public peace has been steadily maintained. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | As a means of national defense it enjoys the public confidence, and is steadily assuming additional importance. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Science is steadily penetrating the recesses of nature and disclosing her secrets, while the ingenuity of free minds is subjecting the elements to the power of man and making each new conquest auxiliary to his comfort. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Since VJ-day the wartime housing shortage has been growing steadily worse and pressure on real estate values has increased. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Thus, we in the free world are moving steadily toward unity and cooperation, in the teeth of that old Bolshevik prophecy, and at the very time when extraordinary rumbles of discord can be heard across the Iron Curtain. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Our fourth objective is prosperity, to keep our economy moving ahead, moving ahead steadily and safely. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | During the same period our national security needs were steadily shortchanged. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Commodity prices have steadily risen. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | It'll build carefully and steadily in the months and years ahead. |
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| "Steadily" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Steadily" is used about 1,679 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 1,679 | 4,985 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "steadily": steadily-decreasing, steadily-expanding, steadily-growing, steadily-larger, steadily-rising. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
1998 established grown has in now steadily | 4 |
ads gaining ground large online steadily | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "steadily"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неотклонно, постоянно (constantly, ever, every moment, habitually, invariably, minutely, perennially, permanently, uniformly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 平稳地. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | stále (all the time, always, constantly, continuously, incessantly, invariably, nonstop, non-stop, persistently, still), pravidelnì (periodically, regularly), nepřetržitì (constantly, continuously, nonstop, non-stop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tilnaermelsen skal gennemfoeres saa regelmaessigt som muligt (the approximation shall proceed as steadily as possible). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | de aanpassing moet zo regelmatig mogelijk geschieden (the approximation shall proceed as steadily as possible). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vankasti (firmly), tiukasti (closely, firmly, fixedly, tightly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | le rapprochement doit être aussi régulier que possible (the approximation shall proceed as steadily as possible). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zuverlässig (authoritatively, credible, dependable, dependably, reliable, reliably, responsible, responsibly, safe, staunch, steady, sure, trustworthy, trusty), stetige, stet (constant, continuous, perpetual, steady, unhesitating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σταθερά (consistently, constantly, firmly, unbendingly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szilárdan (firmly, stably, steady, sturdily, substantially, tightly), szünet nélkül (hourly, steady, without intermission), egyenletesen (consistently, evenly, on an even keel, smoothly, steady), állhatatosan (consistently, steadfastly, steady). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | fermamente (fast, firmly, strongly, tight), costantemente. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 徐々に (gradually, little by little, quietly, slowly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | そろそろ (gradually, quietly, slowly, soon), ぐ"ぐ" , ひたおしに, ど"ど" (rapidly), "つ"つ (clicking, drumming, laboriously, unflaggingly, untiringly), コツコツ (clicking, drumming, laboriously, unflaggingly, untiringly), じょじょに (gradually, little by little, quietly, slowly), じょじょ (gradually, quietly, slowly, soon), ちゃくちゃく. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 꾸준하게 (Unremittingly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | neuchorragh (immobile, stable), gyn stad, dy rea (evenly, soft), dy neuchorragh, dy corrym (adequately, equally, evenly, fair). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eadilystay (tal)aproximação deve ser tão regular quanto possível (the approximation shall proceed as steadily as possible). (various references) неуклонно. (various references) staloženo, stalno (constantly, continually, continuously, permanently), stabilno, postojano, nepokolebljivo, čvrsto (fast, firmly, hard, sound, soundly, staunchly, steady, substantially, tightly). (various references) firmemente (fast, firmly). (various references) denna tillnärmning skall ske så regelbundet som möjligt (the approximation shall proceed as steadily as possible). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | constanter. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "steadily": unsteadily. (additional references) | |
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"Steadily" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: estradiol. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "steadily" (pronounced ste"dulē) |
| 5 | -e" d u l ē | readily. |
| 4 | -d u l ē | bodily, greedily, handily, speedily. |
| 3 | -u l ē | abnormally, abysmally, accidentally, actually, additionally, agriculturally, anecdotally, anencephaly, angrily, annually, anomaly, arbitrarily, architecturally, artfully, artificially, beneficially, bilaterally, blissfully, botanically, broccoli, brutally, busily, carefully, casually, centrally, cerebrally, cheerfully, chronically, Cicely, circumstantially, civilly, clinically, clumsily, coincidentally, comically, commercially, conceptually, conditionally, confidentially, congressionally, conspiratorially, constitutionally, continentally, continually, contractually, contradictorily, conventionally, cordially, crazily, criminally, critically, culturally, customarily, cynically, delightfully, developmentally, diagonally, diametrically, digitally, dismally, diurnally, dorsally, dreadfully, dutifully, easily, editorially, educationally, eerily, electrically, electronically, emotionally, empirically, environmentally, equally, essentially, eternally, ethically, eventually, exceptionally, experimentally, exponentially, externally, extraordinarily, facsimile, factually, faithfully, family, fanatically, fatally, federally, finally, financially, fiscally, fitfully, florally, forcefully, formally, fractionally, frantically, frightfully, frugally, functionally, fundamentally, gainfully, generally, generationally, geographically, giggly, gleefully, globally, gloomily, governmentally, gracefully, gradually, gratefully, gravelly, gravitationally, habitually, happily, hastily, haughtily, heartily, heavily, helpfully, hermetically, historically, homily, hopefully, horizontally, hungrily, icily, illegally, impartially, incidentally, incrementally, individually, industrially, informally, initially, institutionally, intellectually, intentionally, internally, internationally, intrinsically, involuntarily, irrationally, jauntily, journalistically, joyfully, judicially, lawfully, lazily, legally, liberally, literally, locally, loyally, luckily, magically, magnetically, majestically, manfully, manually, marginally, masterfully, materially, mathematically, meaningfully, medicinally, mentally, mercifully, merrily, methodically, metrically, mightily, militarily, mineralogically, minimally, momentarily, monetarily, monopoly, monumentally, morally, mortally, multifamily, multilaterally, municipally, mutually, nasally, nationally, nattily, naturally, necessarily, noisily, nominally, normally, novelly, nutritionally, occasionally, officially, oligopoly, operationally, optimistically, orally, orchestrally, ordinarily, originally, painfully, parenthetically, partially, pathetically, peacefully, perennially, periodically, peripherally, perpetually, personally, phenomenally, philosophically, physically, pitifully, playfully, politically, potentially, pragmatically, preferentially, preliminarily, presidentially, primarily, procedurally, professionally, proportionally, provincially, provisionally, purposefully, quintessentially, racially, radially, rationally, regally, regionally, regretfully, respectfully, rightfully, ritualistically, romantically, royally, ruefully, sardonically, satisfactorily, scantily, scientifically, seasonally, secondarily, semiannually, sequentially, serenely, severally, sexually, skeptically, skillfully, sleepily, sloppily, socially, specially, spiritually, statistically, statutorily, steamily, structurally, subfamily, subliminally, substantially, subtly, successfully, summarily, supremely, surgically, symbolically, sympathetically, tactfully, tactically, tangentially, tastefully, tearfully, technically, technologically, temperamentally, temporally, temporarily, terminally, territorially, testily, thankfully, theatrically, theoretically, therapeutically, thoughtfully, totally, traditionally, Tripoli, truthfully, uncannily, unconditionally, unconstitutionally, uncritically, uneasily, unequivocally, unhappily, unilaterally, unintentionally, universally, unlawfully, unnaturally, unnecessarily, unofficially, unsuccessfully, unusually, usefully, usually, virtually, viscerally, visually, vitally, vocally, voluntarily, warily, wearily, wiggly, wilfully, willfully, wishfully, wistfully, wittily, wobbly, woefully, wonderfully, wrongfully. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-l-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: details, dialyse, dilates, staidly. | |
-2 letters: aisled, daylit, deasil, delays, delist, deltas, desalt, detail, dilate, distal, easily, ideals, idlest, ladies, lasted, listed, lysate, sailed, salted, saltie, silted, slated, slatey, slayed, staled, stayed, steady, stelai, styled, tailed, tildes, yields. | |
-3 letters: adits, aides, ailed, aisle, alist, aside, daily, daisy, dales, dates, deals, dealt, deils, deist, deity. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-l-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: diacetyls, dialysate. | |
+2 letters: dialysates, dialyzates, unsteadily. | |
+3 letters: crystalized, deistically, disparately, sustainedly. | |
+4 letters: crystallised, crystallized, desirability, desolatingly, despotically, discrepantly, disloyalties, disreputably, dissipatedly, distractedly, domestically, drysalteries, dyeabilities, farsightedly, laryngitides, restrainedly, syllabicated, syndactylies, syndetically. | |
+5 letters: adversatively, asyndetically, clandestinely, clandestinity, considerately, constrainedly, dactylologies, defeasibility, devastatingly, discreditably, distastefully, dyspeptically, equidistantly, lymphadenitis, nearsightedly, perissodactyl, polydactylies, residentially, solderability, spreadability, straitlacedly, subordinately. | |
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