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Definition: Unvarying |
UnvaryingAdjective1. Persistent in occurrence and unvarying in nature; "maintained a constant temperature"; "a constant beat"; "principles of unvarying validity"; "a steady breeze". 2. Lacking variety. 3. Always the same; showing a single form or character in all occurrences; "a street of uniform tall white buildings". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unvarying" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
Synonyms: UnvaryingSynonyms: changeless (adj), constant (adj), invariant (adj), steady (adj), uniform (adj), unvaried (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: multiform (adj), varied (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Continuance in action | Adjective: continuing; Verb: uninterrupted, unintermitting, unvarying, unshifting; unreversed, unstopped, unrevoked, unvaried; sustained; undying; (perpetual); inconvertible. |
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: Unvarying |
| English words defined with "unvarying": changeless, constant ♦ invariant ♦ modus operandi, monotone, monotonic, monotonous ♦ routine ♦ steadiness, steady ♦ uniformity. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "unvarying": flux-gate magnetometer ♦ miner's weight ♦ Pine Tree ♦ quasi-Lagrangian coordinates. (references) |
| "Unvarying" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unvarying" is used about 34 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% | 34 | 59,261 |
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 |
unvarying | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "unvarying"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | æ— å˜åŒ–. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unveränderlich (changeless, immovable, immutable, immutably, invariable, invariably, invariant, unalterable, unalterably, unchangeable, unchangeably, unchanging, unmodifiable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | állandó (caducous, client, constant, continual, continuous, editorial staff, everlasting, fixed, have a general invitation, immobile, immutable, invariable, invariant, permanent, perpetual, repertoire piece, stable, standing, staple, stationary, steady, stock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aryingunvay неизменÑющийÑÑ, неизменный (changeless, constant, eternal, immutable, inalterable, incommutable, inevitable, invariant, irrevocable, permanent, steady, sworn, unalterable, unaltered, unamended, unchangeable, unchanged, unfailing), поÑтоÑнный (abiding, changeless, chronic, constant, continuous, direct, eternal, hard, hourly, immanent, in ordinary, invariable, invariant, perdurable, perm, permanent, perpetual, persistent, regular, settled, stationary, uniform). (various references) uvek isti, nepromenljiv (changeless, immutable, inalterable, indeclinable, invariable, unalterable, unchangeable, unchanging, undeclinable). (various references) invariable (invariable, invariant, unchangeable). (various references) deÄŸiÅŸmez (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, unswerving, unwavering), deÄŸiÅŸmeyen (routine, stationary, unchanging, uniform). (various references) không thay đổi (changeless, constant, equable, immutable, invariable, invariant, same, unaltered, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, undiversified, upstanding), không biến đổi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Unvarying" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: navvying. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-n-n-r-u-v-y" | |
-2 letters: varying, yarning. | |
-3 letters: grainy, granny, guanin, raving, raying. | |
-4 letters: angry, garni, ginny, grain, gravy, gunny, inurn, invar, rainy, rangy, ravin, ruing, runny, unary, unrig, virga, vying. | |
-5 letters: agin, airn, airy, ayin, gain, gaun, gaur, girn, gnar, gran, gray, grin, guan, guar, gyri, nary, navy, ragi, rain, rang, rani, ring, ruga, ruin, rung, unai, vagi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-n-n-r-u-v-y" | |
+3 letters: unwaveringly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 76 61 72 79 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. ...- .- .-. -.--. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01110110 01100001 01110010 01111001 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n v a r y i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0076 0061 0072 0079 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)558088678491758073 |
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