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Trusty vs Steadfast - What's the difference?

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Trusty is a related term of steadfast.


As adjectives the difference between trusty and steadfast

is that trusty is reliable or trustworthy while steadfast is fixed or unchanging; steady.

As a noun trusty

is a trusted person, especially a prisoner who has been granted special privileges.

trusty

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Reliable or trustworthy.

    • Noun

    (trusties)
  • A trusted person, especially a prisoner who has been granted special privileges.
  • * 1941 , James Howell Street, In my father's house
    • We usta have a rule that if a trusty shot an escaping convict, then the trusty would go free.
  • *1953 , (Raymond Chandler), The Long Goodbye , Penguin 2010, p. 58:
  • *:The cell block is clean and doesn't smell of disinfectant. The trusties do all the work. The supply of trusties is always ample.

    • steadfast

    English

    Alternative forms

    * stedfast (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Fixed or unchanging; steady.
  • Firmly loyal or constant; unswerving.

    • Derived terms

    * steadfastly * steadfastness