Lasting

/ˈlɑːstɪŋ/ · adjective

Meaning

Persisting for an extended period of time..

Definitions by Sense

1. Persisting for an extended period of time.
2. (obsolete) Persisting forever.
3. present participle and gerund of last
4. (clothing, historical) In full lasting cloth: a durable, plain woven fabric formerly used for making clothes and for the uppers of women's shoes.
5. (shoemaking) The act or process of shaping footwear on a last.
6. (obsolete) The action or state of persisting; the time during which something or someone persists.

Example Sentences

After World War I it was hoped that a lasting peace had been achieved. It hadn’t.

I was taken to the theatre for the first time when I was six years old, and the experience made a lasting impression on me.

hasty wroth, and heedlesse hazardry Doe breede repentaunce late, and lasting infamy.

Look ye, Marriage is a lasting thing—if it were for six Months only, I might venture upon thee—but for all days of my Life—mercy upon me […]

I knew that nought was lasting, but now even Change grows too changeable, without being new:

Then his son bought a carven coffin hewn from a great log of fragrant wood which is used to bury the dead in and for nothing else because that wood is as lasting as iron, and more lasting than human bones, and Wang Lung was comforted.

Though they obviously realized that these episodes were part of something wonderful and important and lasting, the writers and producers couldn’t have imagined that 20 years later “Treehouse Of Horror” wouldn’t just survive; it’d thrive as one of the most talked-about and watched episodes of every season of The Simpsons.

I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death, And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings His soul and body to their lasting rest.

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• more lasting
• most lasting
• lastings

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