Everlasting

Quick meaning: Everlasting is an adjective meaning Lasting or enduring forever; endless, eternal.

Meaning

Lasting or enduring forever; endless, eternal.

More Meanings

1. Continuing for a long period; eternal.
2. Happening all the time, especially to a tiresome extent; constant, incessant, unending.
3. Of clothing or fabric: lasting a long time; very durable or hard-wearing.
4. Chiefly in the name of a plant:
5. Used as an intensifier.
6. Synonym of everlastingly.
7. (countable, botany) Chiefly with a descriptive word: short for everlasting flower (“any of several plants, chiefly of the family Asteraceae (principally the tribe Gnaphalieae), having flowers that retain their colour and form when dried; also, a flower of such a plant”)

Example Sentences

VVhy, in Heaven I ſhall have an everlaſting Holyday of Pleaſure.

Philoſophers, vvho darken and put out / Eternal truth by everlaſting doubt, […]

And vvhat a trifle is a moments Breath, / Laid in the Scale vvith everlaſting Death?

I muſt venture: To go back is nothing but death, to go forvvard is fear of death, and life everlaſting beyond it. I vvill yet go forvvard.

Word Forms

• ever-lasting
• everlastings

Synonyms for everlasting

Depending on context, synonyms include continual, eternal, immortal, incessant, infinite, interminable.

Antonyms for everlasting

Common opposites include ephemeral, finite, limited, mortal.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include eternal, permanent, ageless, immortal, eonian, perpetual.

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