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Definition: Undeviating |
UndeviatingAdjective1. Going directly ahead from one point to another without veering or turning aside; "some people see evolution as an undeviating upward march from simple organisms to the very complex"; "a straight and narrow tree-lined road unswerving across the lowlands". 2. Used of values and principles; not subject to change; steady; "undeviating loyalty". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "undeviating" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
Synonym: UndeviatingSynonym: unswerving (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Direction | Adjective: directed; Verb: directed towards; pointing towards; Verb: bound for; aligned, with alligned with; direct, straight; undeviating, unswerving; straightforward; North, Northern, Northerly; n. |
Perseverance | Adjective: persevering, constant; steady, steadfast; undeviating, unwavering, unfaltering, unswerving, unflinching, unsleeping, unflagging, undrooping; steady as time; unrelenting, |
Stability | Adjective: unchangeable, immutable; unaltered, unalterable; not to be changed, constant; permanent; invariable, undeviating; stable, durable; perennial; (diuturnal). |
Straightness | Adjective: straight; rectilinear, rectilineal; direct, even, right, true, in a line; unbent, virgate; Verb: undeviating, unturned, undistorted, unswerving; straight as an arrow; (direct); inflexible. |
Uniformity | Adjective: uniform; homogeneous, homologous;of a piece, consistent, connatural; monotonous, even, invariable; regular, unchanged, undeviating, unvaried, unvarying. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Undeviating |
| English words defined with "undeviating": unswerving. (references) |
| "Undeviating" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Undeviating" is used about 5 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
undeviating | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "undeviating"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неотклонен (swerveless, unflagging, unswerving), непоколебим (determined, firm, immovable, proof, resolute, resolved, set, stanch, unbendable, unconquerable, undaunted, unfaltering, unflagging, unshakable, unshaken, unshrinking, unswerving, unwavering), неизменен (immutable, inalterable, incommutable, invariable, permanent, rigid, standing, stationary, steady, stereotyped, unaltered, unfailing, uniform, unvaried), без отклонения, прав (continuous, direct, erect, flat, forehanded, right, stand up, standing, straight, swerveless, unseated, upright, upstanding), постоянен (abiding, changeless, chronic, constant, continuous, direct, firm, fixed, frequent, hourly, immovable, invariable, lasting, minutely, perennial, permanent, perpetual, persistent, regular, secular, settled, stable, standing, static, steadfast, steady, stock, substantive, sustained, unalterable, unfailing, unidirectional, uniform, uninterrupted, unvaried). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مصمم (Intent, Resolute, Set, Stalwart, Unflinching), بدون تردیدرای , بدون انحراف . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unbeirrbar (imperturbable, single minded, unflinching, unswerving, unwavering, unwaveringly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μη παρεκκλίνων. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | el nem térő, el nem hajló. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ynrick (correct, correct as behaviour, earnest, faithful, forthcoming, frank, genuine, honest, intrinsic, just, open-hearted, outright, righteous, sincere, straightforward, truthful), kiart (accurate, concession, correct, due, exact, just, level, orthodox, precise, prerogative, proper, pukka, right, thorough-paced, title, true, true real), jeeragh (candid, direct; erect, downright, due, fair and square, faithful; just, forthcoming, frank, honest, lineal; sincere, outright, outspoken, partly done, plumb, point-blank, rigid, straight, straight ahead, straightforward, strict, true, unequivocal, unerring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eviatingunday que não desvia, invariável (deep-seated, fixed income securities, invariably, same, settled, steady, unalterable). (various references) yolundan şaşmayan, sapmaz (unswerving). (various references) thẳng (direct, erect, flat, front, plump, straight, straightaway, thro, through), không rẽ, không đi lệch hướng; chắc tay, chặt chẽ (hard-set, rigorous, tight, tightly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "undeviating": undeviatingly. (additional references) | |
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"Undeviating" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: indeviating. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-i-i-n-n-t-u-v" | |
-2 letters: detaining, deviating, guanidine, uninvited. | |
-3 letters: auditing, auditive, daunting, davening, enditing, guanidin, ideating, indigent, inundate, invading, untinged, vanitied, vaunting. | |
-4 letters: anguine, anteing, antigen, antigun, audient, dauting, deaning, deaving, denting, deviant, dieting, dinting, dunnage, dunnite, dunting, editing, enduing, evading, eviting, gentian, guanine, ignited, indigen, induing, inedita, invited, tending, tunnage, unitage, uniting, unitive, vaunted, vauntie, veining. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-i-i-n-n-t-u-v" | |
+2 letters: undeviatingly. | |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. -.. . ...- .. .- - .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110110 01101001 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n d e v i a t i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0064 0065 0076 0069 0061 0074 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5580707188756786758073 |
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