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sustained
CIDE DICTIONARY
sustained, a.
Held up to a certain pitch, degree, or level; uniform; as, sustained pasion; a sustained style of writing; a sustained note in music. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
sustained
abiding, based on, bolstered, borne, braced, buttressed, ceaseless, changeless, chattering, constant, continual, continued, continuing, continuous, durable, enduring, even, firm, fixed, founded on, frozen, grounded on, guyed, held, immobile, immutable, incessant, indefatigable, intact, interminable, inviolate, lasting, level, machine gun, maintained, oscillating, perennial, permanent, perpetual, persistent, prolonged, propped, pulsating, quiescent, rapid, regular, remaining, repeated, rigid, shored up, solid, stable, staccato, static, stationary, stayed, staying, steadfast, steady, sticking, stuttering, supported, torpid, unaltered, unbroken, unceasing, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unchecked, undestroyed, undying, unfading, unfailing, uniform, unintermitted, unintermittent, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unremitting, unshifting, unstopped, unvaried, unvarying, upheld, vibratingROGET THESAURUS
sustained
Continuance in action
N continuance in action, continuance, continuation, run, perpetuation, prolongation, persistence, repetition, continuing, uninterrupted, unintermitting, unvarying, unshifting, unreversed, unstopped, unrevoked, unvaried, sustained, undying, inconvertible, Int, keep it up!, go to it!, right away!, right on!, attaboy!, nolumus leges Angliae mutari, vestigia nulla retrorsum, labitur et albetur.For further exploring for "sustained" in Webster Dictionary Online