Staunch

Quick meaning: Staunch is an adjective meaning Not permitting water or some other liquid to escape or penetrate; watertight.

Meaning

Not permitting water or some other liquid to escape or penetrate; watertight.

More Meanings

1. Strongly built; also, in good or strong condition.
2. Staying true to one's aims or principles; firm, resolute, unswerving.
3. Dependable, loyal, reliable, trustworthy.
4. Cautious, restrained.
5. Stubborn, intransigent.
6. Alternative spelling of stanch.
7. (obsolete) That which stanches or checks a flow.

Example Sentences

Without our staunch front line the enemy would have split the regiment.

Yet if I knevv, / VVhat Hoope ſhould hold vs ſtaunch from edge to edge / Ath'vvorld [of the world]: I vvould perſue it.

This part of the castle was burned last autumn; but it is now under repair, and the wall of the tower is still stanch and strong.

Our Proviſions held out vvell, our Ship vvas ſtaunch, and our Crevv all in good Health; but vve lay in the utmoſt diſtreſs for VVater.

Word Forms

• stauncher
• staunchest
• stanch
• staunches
• staunching
• staunched

Synonyms for staunch

Depending on context, synonyms include constant, determined, persistent, steadfast, unyielding, unswerving.

Antonyms for staunch

Common opposites include compromising, transigent.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include steadfast, constant, unswerving, stem, stanch, halt.

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