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Firm

noun

1.

The members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments. Synonyms: business firm, house.

adjective

(compar. firmer; superl. firmest)

1.

Marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable. Synonyms: steadfast, steady, stiff, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering. "A firm mouth" , "Steadfast resolve" , "A man of unbendable perseverence" , "Unwavering loyalty"

2.

Not soft or yielding to pressure. Synonym: solid. "The snow was firm underfoot" , "Solid ground"

3.

Strong and sure. Synonym: strong. "Gave a strong pull on the rope"

4.

Not subject to revision or change. "A firm offer"

5.

(of especially a person's physical features) not shaking or trembling. "A firm step"

6.

Not liable to fluctuate or especially to fall. Synonyms: steady, unfluctuating.

7.

Securely established.

8.

Possessing the tone and resiliency of healthy tissue.

9.

Securely fixed in place. Synonyms: fast, immobile.

10.

Unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause. Synonyms: fast, loyal, truehearted. "Loyal supporters" , "The true-hearted soldier...of Tippecanoe" , "Fast friends"

verb

1.

Become taut or tauter. Synonym: tauten. "The rope tautened"

2.

Make taut or tauter. Synonym: tauten.

adverb

1.

With resolute determination. Synonyms: firmly, steadfastly, unwaveringly. "You must stand firm"

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"Firm" Quotes from Famous Books

... of skill in telegraphy consists mostly in learning these higher units of reactions. It is the same in {324} learning to typewrite. First you must learn your alphabet of letter-striking movements; by degrees you reduce these finger movements to firm habits, and are then in the letter-habit stage, in which you spell out each word as you write it. After a time, you write a familiar word without spelling it, by a cooerdinated series of finger movements; you write by word units, and later, ...

— Psychology - A Study Of Mental Life • Robert S. Woodworth

... firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill; A perfect woman, nobly planned, To ...

— Familiar Quotations • John Bartlett

... under her aunt's vigilant guardianship, was inconsolable. She languished and drooped, during the first week or two of her exile, as though her usually firm will had died within her. So utterly broken did she seem that her aunt began to lose all hope of rousing her to any interest in life; apparently she was submitting in a spirit of blank despair to a fate which she regarded as inevitable. ...

— Up in Ardmuirland • Michael Barrett

... between the hundred francs of expense, and the joys of a Strasbourg pate de fois gras, you are struck dumb on finding this pate proudly installed on the sideboard of your dining-room. Is this the vision offered by some gastronomic mirage? In this doubting mood you approach with firm step, for a pate is a living creature, and seem to neigh as you scent afar off the truffles whose perfumes escape through the gilded enclosure. You stoop over it two distinct times; all the nerve centres ...

— Analytical Studies • Honore de Balzac

... for deliberation, and yet the slightest act of carelessness would destroy him and his friends. A single spark falling from the long wick would be ruin. A firm hand and a brave heart were required to do that apparently simple act—to withdraw the taper from the cask. It must be done at that moment! He heard Sir Henry calling him to take the helm. Planting ...

— True Blue • W.H.G. Kingston

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