Dictionary Definition
everlasting adj
1 continuing forever or indefinitely; "the
ageless themes of love and revenge"; "eternal truths"; "life
everlasting"; "hell's perpetual fires"; "the unending bliss of
heaven" [syn: ageless,
eternal, perpetual, unending, unceasing]
2 expletives used informally as intensifiers;
"he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold
winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or
darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or
goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "tired or his
everlasting whimpering"; "an infernal nuisance" [syn: blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal]
4 without qualification; used informally as
(often pejorative) intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete
coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross
negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding
mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter
nonsense" [syn: arrant(a),
complete(a),
consummate(a),
double-dyed(a),
everlasting(a),
gross(a),
perfect(a),
pure(a),
sodding(a),
stark(a),
staring(a),
thoroughgoing(a),
utter(a)]
5 continuing too long; "everlasting complaints" n
: any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae
having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color
[syn: everlasting
flower]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Adjective
everlasting- Lasting or enduring forever; existing or continuing without end; immortal; eternal. "The Everlasting God." Gen. xx1. 33.
- Continuing indefinitely, or during a long period; perpetual;
sometimes used, colloquially, as a strong intensive; as, "this
everlasting nonsense".
- I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee . . . the land
of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. Gen xvii. 8.
- And heard thy everlasting yawn confess The pains and penalties of idleness. -Pope.
- I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee . . . the land
of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. Gen xvii. 8.
Synonyms
Translations
Lasting or enduring forever
- Finnish: ikuinen
Continuing indefinitely
- Finnish: ikuinen
Usage notes
- Everlasting, Eternal. Eternal denotes (when taken strictly)
without beginning or end of duration; everlasting is sometimes used
in our version of the Scriptures in the sense of eternal, but in
modern usage is confined to the future, and implies no intermission
as well as no end.
- Whether we shall meet again I know not; Therefore our everlasting farewell take; Forever, and forever farewell, Cassius. -William Shakespeare.
Derived terms
Extensive Definition
Everlasting means to be eternal or indestructible. It may
also may refer to:
- Everlasting life, the concept of physical or spiritual immortality
Botany
- Everlasting, common name of all plants in Syncarpha genus of the Asteraceae family
- Everlasting, common name of the perennial evergreen plant Antennaria howellii
Games
- The Everlasting (role-playing game), a roleplaying game published by Visionary Entertainment Studios
Music
Albums
- everlasting (album), a 1997 album by Every Little Thing
- Everlasting, an 2006 instrumental work by Robin Guthrie
Songs
- "The Everlasting" (song), a 1998 single by Manic Street Preachers
- "Everlasting" (song), a 2006 single by BoA
See also
Everlast (disambiguation)everlasting in Korean: 에버래스팅
everlasting in Japanese: Everlasting
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
ageless, all-knowing,
all-powerful, all-seeing, all-wise, almighty, amaranthine, blah, boundless, broken-record,
ceaseless, changeless, coeternal, constant, continual, continuous, creating, creative, dateless, deathless, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, embalmed, endless, eternal, eternally the same,
eterne, ever-being,
ever-durable, ever-during, ever-fresh, everliving, fadeless, frozen, glorious, good, hallowed, harping, highest, holy, humdrum, immemorial, immortal, immutable, imperishable, incessant, incorruptible, indestructible, infinite, interminable, invariable, jog-trot,
just, lasting, limitless, long-winded,
loving, luminous, majestic, making, merciful, monotonous, never-ceasing,
never-dying, never-ending, nonstop, nonterminating, nonterminous, numinous, olamic, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, one, perdurable, permanent, perpetual, prolix, radiant, sacred, sempiternal, shaping, singsong, sovereign, steady, supreme, tedious, termless, timeless, treadmill, ubiquitous, unbounded, unceasing, unchanging, undefined, undying, unending, uneventful, unfading, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unlimited, unremitting, unvarying, without
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