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Antonyms for varying

Grammar : Adj
Spell : vair-ee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈvɛər i

Definition of varying

Origin :
  • mid-14c. (transitive); late 14c. (intransitive), from Old French varier, from Latin variare "change, alter, make different," from varius "varied, different, spotted;" perhaps related to varus "bent, crooked, knock-kneed," and varix "varicose vein," from a PIE root *wer- (1) "high raised spot or other bodily infirmity" (cf. Old English wearte "wart," Swedish varbulde "pus swelling," Latin verruca "wart"). Related: Varied; varying.
  • adj variable
Example sentences :
  • She was back again in an instant, however, in another of her varying moods.
  • Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • There are all the varying fortunes of butter-making recorded.
  • Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
  • Her yard is a varying pageant of plants in all stages of misfortune.
  • Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
  • Thousands upon thousands do it, according to their varying manner, every day.
  • Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens
  • She cut four of varying lengths and dropped them into an empty cracker-box.
  • Extract from : « Four Girls and a Compact » by Annie Hamilton Donnell
  • He followed with a fusillade of questions in strange and varying tongues.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 » by Various
  • There are two or three strains of this, varying a little as to habit.
  • Extract from : « The Mayflower, January, 1905 » by Various
  • At every moment of the day it delighted them afresh, its expression ever varying.
  • Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola
  • The cups are small, varying much in color and the sporidia are ellipsoidal.
  • Extract from : « The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise » by M. E. Hard
  • What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of Health!
  • Extract from : « Nature » by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Synonyms for varying

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