firmly fixed or supported; not likely to fall over; not changing in amount, speed etc; (of a person behaviour) having, keeping to, a regular (good) pattern
stable, fixed
Cases of word usage
1) heavy material (e.g. rock, iron, sand, water) put into a ship to keep it steady or used to make a road or a railway (ballast)
2) steady effort; showing of care and effort (diligence)
3) a long, steady look (gaze)
4) causing, having, the feeling that everything is turning round so that one cannot stand steady (giddy)
5) a rope or chain used to keep something steady or secured, e.g. to hold a tent in place (guy)
6) a heavy wheel which, when spinning fast, keeps steady the objects in which it is fixed (gyroscope)
7) a very small river; a steady flow (of liquid, people, things) (stream)
8) a long ridge of water, especially on the sea, curling over and breaking on the shore; a steady increase and spread; a group of wavelengths used for radio broadcast; to move to and from, up and down (wave)
9) not firm or steady (wobbly)
10) not steady (wonky)