STEADILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does steadily mean? 

• STEADILY (adverb)
  The adverb STEADILY has 2 senses:

1. at a steady rate or pace

2. in a steady manner

  Familiarity information: STEADILY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STEADILY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

At a steady rate or pace

Context example:

his interest eroded steadily

Pertainym:

steady (not subject to change or variation especially in behavior)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a steady manner

Synonyms:

steadily; steady

Context example:

he could still walk steadily

Antonym:

unsteadily (in an unsteady manner)

Pertainym:

steady (not subject to change or variation especially in behavior)

 Context examples 

All night I steered, without relief, the wind slowly and steadily increasing and the sea rising.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A part of me you must become, he answered steadily; otherwise the whole bargain is void.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

As I moved away from them along the terrace, I could not help observing how steadily they both sat gazing on the prospect, and how it thickened and closed around them.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Whilst they were talking Mr. Morris was looking steadily at the window, and he now got up quietly, and went out of the room.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Suddenly Wolf turned his head, and over his shoulder just as steadily regarded Walt.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

With my arms before me I walked steadily in.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

She looked steadily on life and assumed its duties with courage and zeal.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“The supply of game for London is going steadily up,” it ran.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He threw it open, and as he did so there was a low, harsh murmur, growing steadily into a loud roar as a train dashed past us in the darkness.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Marianne looked at her steadily, and said, You know, Elinor, that this is a kind of talking which I cannot bear.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)