stand fast

Speech parts

1. stand fast - Verb

2. stand fast - Interjection

Meaning

refuse to abandon one's opinion or belief

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

stand pat stand firm hold firm continue weather stand stick withstand persist insist persevere carry on press on go on hold on
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Antonyms

bend stop accept agree quit approve
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Hypernyms

insist take a firm stand

Hyponyms

hunker down

Examples

Dallek 1998, p. 383. The conference ended with pronouncements to stand fast against communist aggression and to promote ideals of democracy and development in Vietnam and across Asia. Source: Internet

Many of these texts are responses to the tribulations of the time, and all of them include exhortations to stand fast in their religious beliefs. Source: Internet

He telegraphed the 6th Army later that day, claiming that it had made a historic contribution to the greatest struggle in German history and that it should stand fast "to the last soldier and the last bullet." Source: Internet

Chapter 3 exhorts the Galatian believers to stand fast in the faith as it is in Jesus. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

stand down from stand easy stand exposed stand fast against stand fast the Holy Ghost stand fire