perpetual

[Per*pet·u*al]

Use the adjective perpetual to describe something that never ends or changes. If you're a perpetual procrastinator, your dilly dallying ways are never going to improve.

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Neverceasing; continuing forever or for an unlimited time; unfailing; everlasting; continuous.

Adjective S.
occurring so frequently as to seem ceaseless or uninterrupted; "a child''s incessant questions"; "your perpetual (or continual) complaints"

Adjective S.
uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing; "the ceaseless thunder of surf"; "in constant pain"; "night and day we live with the incessant noise of the city"; "the never-ending search for happiness"; "the perpetual struggle to maintain standar

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.
Neverceasing; continuing forever or for an unlimited time; unfailing; everlasting; continuous.


Perpetual

Per*pet"u*al , a. [OE. perpetuel, F. perp'82tuel, fr. L. perpetualis, fr. perpetuus continuing throughout, continuous, fr. perpes, -etis, lasting throughout.] Neverceasing; continuing forever or for an unlimited time; unfailing; everlasting; continuous.
Unto the kingdom of perpetual night.
Perpetual feast of nectared sweets.
Circle of perpetual apparition, ∨ occultation. See under Circle. -- Perpetual calendar, a calendar so devised that it may be adjusted for any month or year. -- Perpetual curacy (Ch. of Eng.), a curacy in which all the tithes are appropriated, and no vicarage is endowed. Blackstone. -- Perpetual motion. See under Motion. -- Perpetual screw. See Endless screw, under Screw. Syn. -- Continual; unceasing; endless; everlasting; incessant; constant; eternal. See Constant.

Neverceasing; continuing forever or for an unlimited time; unfailing; everlasting; continuous.

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Usage Examples

A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.

Bad things do happen how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us.

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.

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