Adjective

(en adjective)

Decided; resolute, possessing much determination.

I'm determined to get a good grade in my exam.

Adjective

(en-adj)

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, year=1908 , year_published=2006 , edition=Reprint , editor= , author=Julia de Wolf Addison , title=Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Project Gutenberg , isbn= , page= , passage=…water is of itself fleeting, but by strength of cold it is turned and made stedfast crystal. }}

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, date=1915-08-23 , year= , month= , first= , last= , author=Frank P. Walsh , coauthors= , title=Perilous Philanthropy , volume= , issue= , page= , magazine=The Independent , publisher= , issn= , url= , passage= … Samuel Gompers directed against the whole Rockefeller investigation into industry, that organized labor will continue to remain sternly aloof and to view this new activity with stedfast distrust. }}

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, year=1935 , year_published=2007 , edition=Digitized Reprint , editor= , author=Charles Caldwell Dobie , title=San Francisco Tales , chapter= citation , genre=Fiction , publisher=D. Appleton-Century , isbn= , page=190 , passage=Could heroics give her back her son? Nay, she must be stedfast , even though false security had betrayed her hidden softness. }}

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, year=1979 , year_published=2009 , edition=Fifth, Digitized , editor=James Alfred Stone , author=Edward Albert , quotee=John Keats , title=History of English Literature , chapter= , url= , genre= , publisher=Harrap , isbn=9780245532474 , page= , passage=… Bright Star , would I were stedfast as thou art, are worthy to be ranked with those of Shakespeare. }}