undeviating

/ənˈdiviˌeɪtɪŋ/

Other forms: undeviatingly

The adjective undeviating means staying on a course or sticking with a plan. If you take the same, undeviating route across a field every day, you'll eventually wear a visible path in the grass.

Another meaning of this word is "steady or constant," like the undeviating love you feel for your pet rabbit or the undeviating attention you pay to an exciting episode of your favorite TV show. To deviate is veer off a path, from the Latin deviare, "turn out of the way," and its root, the phrase de via or "off way."

Definitions of undeviating

1. adjective

   going directly ahead from one point to another without veering or turning aside
   “some people see evolution as an undeviating upward march from simple organisms to the very complex”

   synonyms: unswerving

   direct

   direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short
2. adjective

   used of values and principles; not subject to change; steady
   “undeviating loyalty”

   synonyms:

   dependable, reliable

   worthy of reliance or trust