sustained

Speech parts

1. sustained - Adjective

2. sustained - Verb

4. sustained - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Sustain

Held up to a certain pitch, degree, or level; uniform; as, sustained pasion; a sustained style of writing; a sustained note in music.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

constant steady continued stable maintained continuous ongoing persistent prolonged enduring durable unbroken incessant steadfast uninterrupted
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Antonyms

nisi lost destroyed advanced abandoned temporary
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Phrases with the word

sustained by result of sustained decrease in air pressure be sustained by sustained period sustained period of time sustained rate

Examples

An insult is either sustained or destroyed, not by the disposition of those who insult, but by the disposition of those who bear it. John Chrysostom

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. Robert Louis Stevenson

Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support. Paul Samuelson

The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him what he needed to live. The more time he spent in a cell, the stronger he would get. Everybody knew who he was now. Don DeLillo

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence. Jewish Proverb

Cow's diets have never been sustained on grass grown in may. Finnish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

sustainable tourism sustainable tourist sustainably sustained by sustained efforts sustained period