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Definition: Unfaltering |
UnfalteringAdjective1. Marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable; "firm convictions"; "a firm mouth"; "steadfast resolve"; "a man of unbendable perseverence"; "unwavering loyalty". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unfaltering" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1821. (references) |
Synonyms: UnfalteringSynonyms: firm (adj), steadfast (adj), steady (adj), unbendable (adj), unshakable (adj), unwavering (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Perseverance | Adjective: persevering, constant; steady, steadfast; undeviating, unwavering, unfaltering, unswerving, unflinching, unsleeping, unflagging, undrooping; steady as time; unrelenting, |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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| Abiding; certain; changeless; constant; durable; enduring; equable; even; firm; fixed; immovable; never-failing; patterned; regular; reliable; safe; set; solid; stabile; steadfast; steady-going; substantial; sure; unchangeable; unchanging; unfaltering; un. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Night approaching, and death also, they waited this double shadow, and yielded unfaltering, to its embrace |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | We will continue to give unfaltering support to the United Nations and related agencies, and we will continue to search for ways to strengthen their authority and increase their effectiveness. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Unfaltering" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "Unfaltering" 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 60% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 40% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "unfaltering"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i vendosur (decided, decisive, determinate, determined, established, firm, fixed, hell-bent, inveterate, nervy, purposeful, resolute, resolved, set, situated, stalwart, stiff, stout, strong, unalterable, unhesitating). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | уверен (assured, certain, confident, positive, reliant, secure, sure, sure footed, unwavering), сигурен (bound, certain, confident, copper-bottomed, dependable, good, infallible, necessary, positive, reliable, responsible, safe, secure, solid, steady, sure, tried, trustworthy, trusty, undoubted, unfailing), решителен (chopping, crisp, decided, decisive, determined, drastic, fateful, flat-footed, heroic, high-spirited, obstinate, peremptory, plucky, plump, point blank, pronounced, purposeful, purposive, resolute, ringing, stable, stalwart, straight out, strong-minded, sturdy, thoroughgoing, trenchant, ultimate, unflinching, unhesitating, utter, winning), твърд (adamant, adamantine, constant, crusty, decided, determined, dogged, fast, firm, flat, flinty, forceful, gritty, hard, hardhearted, immovable, obstinate, persistent, proof, rigid, rock-ribbed, rocky, sclerotic, sclerous, set, solid, stable, staunch, steadfast, steady, steely, stiff, stout, stringy, strong, sturdy, swerveless, tenacious, tinny, unflinching, unshakable, unshrinking, unswerving, unwavering), непоколебим (determined, firm, immovable, proof, resolute, resolved, set, stanch, unbendable, unconquerable, undaunted, undeviating, unflagging, unshakable, unshaken, unshrinking, unswerving, unwavering). (various references) | |
Czech | nezajíkající se. (various references) | |
German | unerschütterlich (imperturbable, imperturbably, impregnable, inextinguishable, ingrained, irrepressible, phlegmatic, sturdy, unassailable, unchallengeable, undaunted, undoubting, unflappable, unflinching, unruffled, unshakable, unshaken, unshakenly, unswerving, unwavering, unwaveringly), unbeugsam (grim, indomitable, inflexible, rigid, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unshakable), fest (abiding, attached, banquet, buoyant, buoyantly, carnival, celebration, closely, compact, consistent, constant, continual, continuous, crisp, definite, faithfully, fast, feast, festival, festivity, fete, fexed, firm, firmly, fix, fixated, fixed, gaiety, hard, heavy, immovable, ingrained, junket, lasting, moored, non-varying, party, permanent, permanently, proof, regular, robust, safely, secure, securely, set, settled, solid, solidly, sound, squarely, stable, steadfast, steadily, steady, stiff, stout, stoutly, strong, sturdy, sustained, tight, tighten, tightly, tough, unhesitating, unshrinking, unwavering, unwaveringly), entschlossen (decisive, determined, determinedly, deterministic, energetic, purposeful, purposefully, resolute, resolutely, resolved, set, unflinching). (various references) | |
Greek | σταθερόσ (abiding, consistent, constant, equable, firm, fixed, hard, permanent, set, stable, stanch, standard, stationary, staunch, steadfast, steady), ακλόνητοσ (unshakeable, unshaken, unwavering). (various references) | |
Hungarian | határozott (categorical, decided, decided refusal, definite, determinate, determined, distinct, dogmatic, emphatic, explicit, game, gritty, manly, plump, positive, stalwart, strong-minded, unmoved), habozás nélküli, biztos (certain, certainty, commissioner, dependable, discerning, firm, infallible, positive, secure, snug, steady, sure, trustworthy). (various references) | |
Italian | inflessibile (adamant, inflexible, relentless, resolute, rigid, steely, stern, stiff, tough, unbending, unrelenting). (various references) | |
Manx | neulhoobagh (formal, inflexible, intractable, rigid, stiff, unbending). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alteringunfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | que não vacila (unhesitating), firme (compact, consistent, deep-seated, die-hard, fadeless, fast, firm, fixed, hard, inflexible, iron, non-ductile, resolute, set, settled, sober, solid, stable, steadfast, steady, stern, stiff, strong, sturdy, substantial, tenacious, tight, tough, unbending, uncompromising, unfailing, unhesitating, unmoved, unshaken, unshrinking, unswerving, unwavering, unyielding). (various references) | |
Romanian | neşovãitor (unflinching, unwavering), hotãrât (adamant, appointed, assertive, categorical, categorically, certain, certainly, dead, decided, definite, definitely, determined, exactly, firm, firmly, flat, flatly, forthright, foursquare, game, gritty, hell-bent, manful, pertinacious, plucky, point blank, positively, purposeful, resolute, resolved, resolvedly, set, stalwart, steadfast, sticky, strong-minded, sturdy, sure, surely, trenchant, unflinching, unflinchingly, unhesitatingly, vigorous), ferm (decidedly, firm, fixed, hard, hard bitten, inflexible, resistant, resolute, resolved, set, stable, staunch, steadfast, steady, sturdy, tight, unbending, unflinching, unshaken, unswerving, unwavering, unyielding). (various references) | |
Russian | недрогнувший (unwavering). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nepokolebljiv (firm, immovable, unshakable, unshaken). (various references) | |
Spanish | resuelto (bold, decided, determined, firm, resolute, resolved, single minded, stout, stout hearted, unhesitating, wheeze). (various references) | |
Swedish | stadig (established, firm, fixed, foursquare, level headed, secure, settled, staid, steadfast, steady), orubblig (adamant, firm, immovable, impassive, imperturbable, impregnable, inexorable, inflexible, pertinacious, tenacious, unblinking, uncompromising, unflinching, unshakable, unshaken, unswerving, unwavering, unyielding), fast (although, concrete, consistent, firm, firmly, fixed, fixedly, flat, hard and fast, immovable, indissoluble, permanent, permanently, rigid, settled, solid, stuck, sturdy, though, tight, unblinking, unshaken, unwavering). (various references) | |
Turkish | tereddüdsüz (resolutely, unhesitating, without hesitation), sağlam (able bodied, bankable, bouncing, calculable, cast iron, consolidated, dyed in grain, fast, firm, flat-footed, foolproof, foursquare, gilt-edged, good, granitic, Hale, hard, healthy, hearty, indissoluble, invulnerable, lusty, responsible, rugged, runproof, safe, scatheless, secure, secured, solid, sound, stable, stalwart, stanch, staunch, steady, steely, stout, strong, sturdy, substantial, substantive, sure, tough, unshakable, unshaken, valid, whole), kararlı (bent, decided, decisive, determined, dogged, firm, flat-footed, hard core, high pressure, immovable, inflexible, intent, professional, resolute, resolved, set, settled, single minded, single-eyed, single-hearted, stable, steadfast, strong-minded, strong-willed, undeterred), emin (assured, bailee, certain, clear, cocksure, confident, confidential, deliberate, fiduciary, firm, good, in the bag, proof, reliable, responsible, safe, secure, sound, stanch, staunch, sure, trustworthy, trusty). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | quả quyết không nao núng, không ngập ngừng (bone), không lung lay, không do dự (decided). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "unfaltering": unfalteringly. (additional references) | |
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"Unfaltering" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unaltering, unfaultering. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-g-i-l-n-n-r-t-u" | |
-2 letters: faltering, featuring, flauntier, flaunting, granulite, reflating, ultrafine. | |
-3 letters: alerting, altering, auntlier, faultier, faulting, feruling, figurant, figurate, filature, finagler, flaunter, fraulein, fruitage, gantline, grateful, gunflint, infernal, inflater, influent, infrugal, integral, internal, latening, learning, ligature, refuting, relating, retinula, retuning, tanglier, tenurial, trainful, triangle, ungenial, unlearnt, untangle. | |
-4 letters: aginner, aligner, alunite, aneling, aneurin, anguine, annulet, anteing. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-g-i-l-n-n-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: unflattering. | |
+2 letters: unfalteringly. | |
+3 letters: unflatteringly. | |
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