Steadfast vs Reputed - What's the difference?
steadfast | reputed |
Fixed or unchanging; steady.
Firmly loyal or constant; unswerving.
(repute)
Pertaining to a reputation accorded to another.
Pertaining to that which is supposed or assumed to be true.
As adjectives the difference between steadfast and reputed
is that steadfast is fixed or unchanging; steady while reputed is pertaining to a reputation accorded to another.As a verb reputed is
(repute).steadfast
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Alternative forms
* stedfast (obsolete)Adjective
(en-adj)Derived terms
* steadfastly * steadfastnessreputed
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- 1904' ''The other young ladies of Sulaco stood in awe of her character and accomplishments. She was '''reputed to be terribly learned and serious.'' — Joseph Conrad, ''Nostramo
Part 2, Chapter 1.
- 1859' ''Mr H. C. Watson has marked for me in the well-sifted London Catalogue of plants (4th edition) 63 plants which are therein ranked as species, but which he considers as so closely allied to other species as to be of doubtful value: these 63 '''reputed species range on an average over 6.9 of the provinces into which Mr Watson has divided Great Britain.'' — Charles Darwin, ''On the Origin of Species ,
Chapter 2.