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unvarying en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English varying English unvarying From un- + varying.

Meanings

1. Persistent, constant, changeless.
   • You can be sure of our unvarying attention.
   • In the United States, where the railways are 90 per cent. dieselised today, diesel-electric power is the unvarying rule for independent locomotive units, and the only motive power exceptions are the highly successful 600-h.p. diesel-hydraulic railcars of the Budd "RDC" type, of which between 300 and 400 are now at work. 1958 April 14, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 268:
2. Lacking variety; having a uniform character.
   • The prizewinning carrots were of an unvarying size.

Forms

Deriveds

unvaryingly · unvaryingness

Synonyms

unchanging · unvaried · samely · uncheckered · constant · uniform · equal · steady · stationary · changeless · stable · consistent · unvarying · regular · equal · static · constant · even · unvarying · unaltering · nonchanging · nonchanging · unchanging · equable · even-keeled · stable · monotonous

Translations (11)

pl jednolity (lacking variety; uniform) · pl jednostajny (persistent, constant) · fi jatkuva (persistent, constant) · fi muuttumaton (persistent, constant) · ru неизменя́ющийся (persistent, constant) · ru постоя́нный (persistent, constant) · ru неизменя́емый (persistent, constant) · fi samanlainen (lacking variety; uniform) · fi yhdenmukainen (lacking variety; uniform) · ru единообра́зный (lacking variety; uniform) · ru неизме́нный (persistent, constant)