steadier

Pluralsteadiers

1. 1
   adjective

   Comparative of steady.

   With both feet planted wide, his stance grew steadier.

   The new tripod proved steadier than anything the crew had used before.

   Note

   The -er comparative, with the final y of steady turning to i before the suffix, just as it does in steadiest at the top of the scale. It can compare any shade of the adjective: a steadier stance, a steadier nerve, a steadier pace. More steady turns up now and then in formal prose. The same spelling also names a thing that steadies, a noun with its own plural, steadiers.

2. 2
   nouncountable

   A thing or person that steadies something else, holding it stable or keeping it from moving.

   The camera operator clamped a steadier onto the rig before the long tracking shot.

   Without a steadier beneath the heavy shelf, the whole unit tipped forward.

   Similarstabilizer, support, brace, prop

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