unsteadfast
unsteadfast adjective: not steadfast; wavering, unfaithful.
Adjective
unsteadfast (comparative more unsteadfast, superlative most unsteadfast)
- Not steadfast; wavering, unfaithful.
- Synonyms:
- unfaithful, unleal, unloyal, booky, dastardly, disleal, disloyal, double-crossing, double-dealing, double-faced
Synonyms of unsteadfast
- unfaithful
- unleal
- unloyal
- booky
- dastardly
- disloyal
- double-crossing
- double-dealing
- double-faced
- double-hearted
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- doublehearted
- faithless
- false
- false-hearted
- guileful
- hollow-hearted
- infidelitous
- Judaslike
- Judasly
- nonfaithful
- perfidious
- Punic
- ratlike
- recreant
- renegade
- reptilian
- traitorish
- traitorlike
- traitorly
- traitorous
- traitorsome
- treacherous
- treachersome
- untrue
- viperish
- viperous
- disleal
- falseheart
- guiled
- illoyal
Forms of unsteadfast
| comparative | more unsteadfast |
|---|---|
| superlative | most unsteadfast |
Origin of unsteadfast
Inherited from Middle English unstedefast, from Old English unstædefast; equivalent to un- + steadfast.
Words formed from unsteadfast
Questions about unsteadfast
- What does unsteadfast mean?
- Unsteadfast means not steadfast; wavering, unfaithful.
- What part of speech is unsteadfast?
- Unsteadfast is an adjective.
Words near unsteadfast in the dictionary
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