Meaning

Lasting or enduring forever; endless, eternal..

Definitions by Sense

1. Lasting or enduring forever; endless, eternal.
2. Continuing for a long period; eternal.
3. Happening all the time, especially to a tiresome extent; constant, incessant, unending.
4. Of clothing or fabric: lasting a long time; very durable or hard-wearing.
5. Chiefly in the name of a plant:
6. Used as an intensifier.
7. Synonym of everlastingly.
8. (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

And vvhether vve ſhall meete againe, I knovv not: / Therefore our euerlaſting farevvell take: / For euer, and for euer, farevvell, Caſſius, / If vve do meete againe, vvhy vve ſhall ſmile; / If not, vvhy then this parting vvas vvell made.

And I will giue vnto thee, and to thy ſeed after thee, the land wherein thou art a ſtranger, all the land of Canaan, for an euerlaſting poſſeſſion, and I will be their God.

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

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.

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

[A]rt thou hidden by those far thicker curtains of the Everlasting night, or rather of the Everlasting Day, though which my mortal eye and outstretched arms need not strive to reach?

I would all the gold of earth were sunk into the everlasting pit! It is this mean, and miserable, and loathsome leprosy of avarice, that gnaws away from our whole race the heart, the soul, nay, the very form, of man!

Word Forms

• more everlasting
• most everlasting
• ever-lasting
• everlastings

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