Definition of "steady-going" []

• Of steady habits; consistently uniform and regular in action; that steadily pursues a reasonable and consistent way: as, a steady-going fellow.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "I can tell you it is always a good thing to have a steady-going person like that in a big house like this — some one you can rely on in any contingency."
• "Those prudent, steady-going characters who are laying down wine in bottles for their heirs, can barely conceive, it is true, of so wide a theory of life, nor appreciate its normal condition; but when will you instill poetry into the provincial intellect?"
• "Too steady-going to be ‘a buck’ (as fast and unmarried men were then called), he was an approximately fashionable man of a mild type."