eternal

[E*ter·nal]

If something lasts forever or even if it just feels like it’s going to last forever, you could call it eternal, which means that it goes on and on and will never change or end.

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Without beginning or end of existence; always existing.

Adjective S.
tiresomely long; seemingly without end; "endless debates"; "an endless conversation"; "the wait seemed eternal"; "eternal quarreling"; "an interminable sermon"

Adjective S.
lasting for an indefinitely long period of time

Adjective S.
continuing forever or indefinitely; "the ageless themes of love and revenge"; "eternal truths"; "life everlasting"; "hell''s perpetual fires"; "the unending bliss of heaven"


a.
Without beginning or end of existence; always existing.

a.
Without end of existence or duration; everlasting; endless; immortal.

a.
Continued without intermission; perpetual; ceaseless; constant.

a.
Existing at all times without change; immutable.

a.
Exceedingly great or bad; -- used as a strong intensive.

n.
One of the appellations of God.

n.
That which is endless and immortal.


Eternal

E*ter"nal , a. [F. '82ternel, L. aeternalis, fr. aeternus. See Etern.] 1. Without beginning or end of existence; always existing.
The eternal God is thy refuge.
To know wether there were any real being, whose duration has been eternal.
2. Without end of existence or duration; everlasting; endless; immortal.
That they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.
3. Continued without intermission; perpetual; ceaseless; constant.
And fires eternal in thy temple shine.
4. Existing at all times without change; immutable.
Hobbes believed the eternal truths which he opposed.
What are the eternal objects of poetry among all nations, and at all times?
5. Exceedingly great or bad; -- used as a strong intensive. "Some eternal villain." The Eternal City, an appellation of Rome. Syn. -- Everlasting; endless; infinite; ceaseless; perpetual; interminable. See Everlasting.

Eternal

E*ter"nal, n. 1. One of the appellations of God.
Law whereby the Eternal himself doth work.
2. That which is endless and immortal. Young.

Without beginning or end of existence; always existing.

One of the appellations of God.

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Usage Examples

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God.

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect. Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.

A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love these only can triumph, for these only can endure.

And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.

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