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steely
adjective as in cold-blooded
adjective as in flinty
Strongest match
adjective as in icy
adjective as in inalterable
Strong match
Weak matches
- adamant
- adamantine
- determined
- dogged
- dyed-in-the-wool
- firm
- fixed
- hard
- hard-and-fast
- immovable
- immutable
- implacable
- indomitable
- inexorable
- intractable
- invariable
- iron
- ironclad
- obdurate
- obstinate
- relentless
- resolute
- rigid
- rigorous
- set
- set in one's ways
- single-minded
- stand one's ground
- staunch
- steadfast
- stiff
- strict
- stringent
- unadaptable
- unbending
- unchangeable
- uncompliant
- uncompromising
- unrelenting
- unswayable
- unyielding
adjective as in inflexible
Strongest matches
adjective as in iron
adjective as in stern
Strong matches
adjective as in stiff
Example Sentences
Our safety and freedom depend on our leaders having the same steely determination today.
Lewis, who delivers Orwell’s words with a steely intensity that builds toward alarm, says his warnings have only grown more urgent.
Sciver-Brunt's demeanour around the press is relaxed but with a steely edge while Edwards has a quiet determination.
He was greeted with steely silence, but the joke, if it was that, might well have killed in the classroom of a suburban high school.
Beneath her rich surfaces, we find steely accounts of injustice and resilience.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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