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  • As other things change in the function, this number remains a constant.
  • She is a constant friend I can count on to look out for me.
  • She committed to him fully, but his love was inconstant.
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inconstant means not and reverses the meaning of constant. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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  • Your presence in this house is a constant disruption.  (source)
    constant = continuous
  • The dunes were changed constantly by the wind, yet these were the same sands he had known since he was a child.  (source)
    constantly = all the time
  • For perhaps ten seconds they crouched like that while the flailing fire sent smoke and sparks and waves of inconstant light over the top of the mountain.  (source)
    inconstant = changing
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inconstant means not and reverses the meaning of constant. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
  • Mulch Diggums, one of life's constants.†  (source)
    constants = things that don't change
  • unconstant womankind!†  (source)
    unconstant = likely to change
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconstant means not and reverses the meaning of constant. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • The constantness, varietylessness, the sheer weight of sameness drove him to despair and froze his imagination.†  (source)
    constantness = the quality of being unchanging or continuous
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • Chapter I have set down for one of the causes of the Dissolutions of Common-wealths, their Imperfect Generation, consisting in the want of an Absolute and Arbitrary Legislative Power; for want whereof, the Civill Soveraign is fain to handle the Sword of Justice unconstantly, and as if it were too hot for him to hold: One reason whereof (which I have not there mentioned) is this, That they will all of them justifie the War, by which their Power was at first gotten, and whereon (as they think) their Right dependeth, and not on the Possession.†  (source)
    unconstantly = in a manner that is likely to change
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconstantly means not and reverses the meaning of constantly. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • He hated their silly attitudes and their constant giggling.  (source)
    constant = happening all the time
  • Can't say I did; the usual violences, a tendency toward a slight paranoia here or there, usual in children because they feel persecuted by parents constantly, but, oh, really nothing.  (source)
    constantly = all the time
  • Such stand simply elevated upon the goodwill and the fortune of him who has elevated them—two most inconstant and unstable things.†  (source)
    inconstant = changing or not reliable
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