steady-going

1. 1.

   consistent in performance or behavior

   “dependable in one's habits”

   “a steady-going family man”

   Synonymsdependablerock-steady

   Similarsteady

Questions about steady-going

What does steady-going mean?

steady-going means "consistent in performance or behavior".

How many syllables are in steady-going?

steady-going has 4 syllables: ste-a-dy--going. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for steady-going?

Close synonyms include dependable, rock-steady. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is steady-going a common word?

steady-going is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.