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UNDEVIATING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does undeviating mean?
• UNDEVIATING (adjective)
The adjective UNDEVIATING has 2 senses:
1. going directly ahead from one point to another without veering or turning aside
2. used of values and principles; not subject to change; steady
Familiarity information: UNDEVIATING used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Going directly ahead from one point to another without veering or turning aside
Synonyms:
undeviating; unswerving
Context example:
a straight and narrow tree-lined road unswerving across the lowlands
Similar:
direct (direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Used of values and principles; not subject to change; steady
Context example:
undeviating loyalty
Similar:
dependable; reliable (worthy of reliance or trust)
Context examples
Obedience, rigid, undeviating obedience, was what was exacted of him; and in return he escaped beatings and his existence was tolerated.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in F. W.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
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