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UNVARYING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unvarying mean?
• UNVARYING (adjective)
The adjective UNVARYING has 3 senses:
1. unvarying in nature
2. lacking variety
3. always the same; showing a single form or character in all occurrences
Familiarity information: UNVARYING used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Unvarying in nature
Synonyms:
changeless; constant; invariant; unvarying
Context example:
principles of unvarying validity
Similar:
invariable (not liable to or capable of change)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Lacking variety
Synonyms:
unvaried; unvarying
Also:
same (closely similar or comparable in kind or quality or quantity or degree)
Attribute:
diverseness; diversity; multifariousness; variety (noticeable heterogeneity)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Always the same; showing a single form or character in all occurrences
Synonyms:
uniform; unvarying
Context example:
a street of uniform tall white buildings
Similar:
single (having uniform application)
Context examples
Utterson became so used to the unvarying character of these reports, that he fell off little by little in the frequency of his visits.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“The country,” said Darcy, “can in general supply but a few subjects for such a study. In a country neighbourhood you move in a very confined and unvarying society.”
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
She got her to Hartfield, and shewed her the most unvarying kindness, striving to occupy and amuse her, and by books and conversation, to drive Mr. Elton from her thoughts.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The third part was an unvarying quantity, but the first and second parts could be varied an infinite number of times.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
William's promotion, with all its particulars, he was soon master of; and with such a secret provision of comfort within his own breast to help the joy, he found in it a source of most gratifying sensation and unvarying cheerfulness all dinner-time.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
It was unvarying, warm admiration everywhere; but this intimate footing was not more than established, when a certain Charles Hayter returned among them, to be a good deal disturbed by it, and to think Captain Wentworth very much in the way.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
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