Unswerving

Definition: Unswerving

Unswerving

Adjective

1. 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. Firm and dependable especially in loyalty; "a steadfast ally"; "a staunch defender of free speech"; "unswerving devotion"; "unswerving allegiance".

Date "unswerving" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Synonyms: Unswerving

Synonyms: staunch (adj), steadfast (adj), undeviating (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,
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.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Unswerving

English words defined with "unswerving": true-blue ♦ undeviating, unswervingly. (references)

Specialty definitions using "unswerving": Vow. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Predators in Our Pulpits: A Compelling Call to Follow Christ With Unswerving Sacrifice (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Unswerving" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unswerving" is used about 51 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%	51	47,619

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Language		Translations for "unswerving"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i qëndrueshëm (abiding, consistent, constant, durable, enduring, evergreen, fast, firm, Hardy, indissoluble, lasting, lingering, perdurable, permanent, persistent, resistant, settled, stabilized, stable, steady, surefooted, unalterable), i patundur (deep-seated, flat-footed, immovable, implicit, inexorable, resolute, staunch, steadfast, unshaken, unwavering). (various references)

Arabic		‏وفي (adherent, constant, faithful, firm, kosher, loyal, righteous, staunch, true, true-hearted, truthful). (various references)

Bulgarian		устойчив (firm, persevering, resistant, rigid, settled, stable, staunch, steadfast, steady, sure footed), 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, unfaltering, unflinching, unshakable, unshrinking, unwavering), неотклонен (swerveless, undeviating, unflagging), непоколебим (determined, firm, immovable, proof, resolute, resolved, set, stanch, unbendable, unconquerable, undaunted, undeviating, unfaltering, unflagging, unshakable, unshaken, unshrinking, unwavering). (various references)

Chinese		� �定不移 (unflinching). (various references)

Czech		pevný (adamant, compact, concrete, consistent, deep-seated, durable, energetic, fast, firm, fixed, good, hard set, hardwearing, heavy duty, immovable, ingrained, meaty, proof, resilient, resolute, secure, solid, sound, stable, steadfast, steady, stout, strong, sturdy, substantial, sure, unmoved, unyielding, valid), neochvìjný (grim, staunch, steady, unfailing, unwavering), neúchylný. (various references)

French		indéfectible (unshakeable), inébranlable (unfailing, unflappable, unshakable, unshaken, unwavering). (various references)

German		unerschütterlich (imperturbable, imperturbably, impregnable, inextinguishable, ingrained, irrepressible, phlegmatic, sturdy, unassailable, unchallengeable, undaunted, undoubting, unfaltering, unflappable, unflinching, unruffled, unshakable, unshaken, unshakenly, unwavering, unwaveringly), unbeirrbar (imperturbable, single minded, undeviating, unflinching, unwavering, unwaveringly). (various references)

Greek		μη παρεκλίνων. (various references)

Hungarian		tántoríthatatlan (true blue, uncompromising). (various references)

Italian		lineare (coherent, linear, logical, straightforward, unidimensional). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		不抜 (firm, indomitable, invincible, steadfast). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ふばつ (firm, indomitable, invincible, steadfast). (various references)

Pig Latin		ervingunsway

Portuguese		inabalável (steadfast, unfailing, unshakeable), 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, unfaltering, unhesitating, unmoved, unshaken, unshrinking, unwavering, unyielding), fiel (anchored, church-goer, faithful, loyal, pointer, retentive, single-hearted, staunch, true, true-blue, trustworthy, trusty, truthful), direito (claim, correct, dexter, downright, dyed-in-the, endlong, entitlement, erect, freehearted, jurisprudence, justice, law, lien, respectable, right, righteous, righthand, royalty, standing, stand-up, straight, straightaway, straightforward, title, upright, upstanding, vertical, warrant), constante (all-time, besetting, constant, continual, even, fixed, frequent, incessant, lasting, loyal, permanent, persevering, persistent, stable, standing, steadfast, sustained, true-blue, uniform, unremitting, unshaken, unwavering, unwearying). (various references)

Romanian		ferm (decidedly, firm, fixed, hard, hard bitten, inflexible, resistant, resolute, resolved, set, stable, staunch, steadfast, steady, sturdy, tight, unbending, unfaltering, unflinching, unshaken, unwavering, unyielding), credincios (as true as steel, believer, believing, devoted, devout, faithful, honest, Leal, loyal, loyally, never failing, reliable, staunch, true, true blue, trusty, unfailing). (various references)

Russian		непоколебимый (hard and fast, immovable, impregnable, iron-handed, resolute, stalwart, unflinching, unshakable, unshakeable, unshaken, unshrinking, unwavering). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		postojan (constant, immovable, immutable, stabile, stable, steadfast, steady, surefooted). (various references)

Spanish		inquebrantable (shockproof, stubborn), fijo (fast, firm, fixed, hard, immovable, keen, lingering, resident, stable). (various references)

Swedish		utan avvikelser, rätlinjig (rectilineal, straightforward), orubblig (adamant, firm, immovable, impassive, imperturbable, impregnable, inexorable, inflexible, pertinacious, tenacious, unblinking, uncompromising, unfaltering, unflinching, unshakable, unshaken, unwavering, unyielding). (various references)

Turkish		yolundan şaşmaz, sapmaz (undeviating), değişmez (changeless, constant, entrenched, equable, fast, fixed, flat-footed, frozen, hard and fast, immutable, inalterable, invariable, Pat, permanent, regular, rigid, set, settled, stable, static, steadfast, steady, unalterable, unchangeable, unchanging, unvarying, unwavering), şaşmaz (infallible, never failing, unerring, unfailing). (various references)

Turkmen		gyюarnyksyz (steadfast). (various references)

Ukrainian		непохитний (adamant, adamantine, die hard, granitic, granitical, hard and fast, immovable, impregnable, inflexible, inviolable, never say die, relentless, rocky, stable, steady, unbending, unshaken, unyielding). (various references)

Vietnamese		trước sau như một (consistent, consistently), kiên định (steadfast). (various references)

Welsh		di-wyro. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "unswerving" (pronounced unswer"ving)
4	-er" v i ng	conserving, curving, deserving, observing, preserving, reserving, serving, undeserving, unnerving.
3	-v i ng	absolving, achieving, approving, arriving, behaving, believing, braving, calving, caregiving, carving, caving, conceiving, conniving, craving, deceiving, delving, depriving, deriving, disapproving, disbelieving, dissolving, diving, driving, earthmoving, engraving, evolving, forgiving, giving, grieving, halving, having, heaving, improving, interleaving, interweaving, involving, jiving, leaving, lifesaving, living, loving, misbehaving, misgiving, moving, paving, perceiving, proving, raving, receiving, relieving, reliving, removing, resolving, retrieving, reviving, revolving, revving, saving, shaving, shelving, shoving, sieving, skydiving, solving, starving, staving, striving, surviving, thanksgiving, thieving, thriving, unbelieving, unforgiving, waiving, waving, weaving.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-g-i-n-n-r-s-u-v-w"
	-2 letters: ensuring, nervings, swerving, unsewing.
	-3 letters: ensuing, enuring, ginners, gunners, gunnies, nerving, nursing, reusing, serving, sunnier, swinger, unrisen, unwiser, versing, wingers, winners, wiverns.
	-4 letters: ennuis, ensign, genius, ginner, givens, givers, gunner, inners, insure, inures, inurns, regius, reigns, renigs, renins, resign, rewins, rusine, sering, sewing, signer, singer, sinner, swinge, unrigs, unsewn, unwise, urines, ursine, venins.
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