About The Word Eternal
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What's The Definition Of Eternal?
[adj] tiresomely long; seemingly without end; "endless debates"; "an endless conversation"; "the wait seemed eternal"; "eternal quarreling"; "an interminable sermon"
[adj] lasting for an indefinitely long period of time [adj] continuing forever or indefinitely; "the ageless themes of love and revenge"; "eternal truths"; "life everlasting"; "hell's perpetual fires"; "the unending bliss of heaven" Synonyms | Synonyms for Eternal: aeonian | ageless | endless | eonian | everlasting | immortal | interminable | lasting | long | permanent | perpetual | unceasing | unending Related Terms | Find terms related to Eternal: ageless | all-comprehensive | all-inclusive | all-knowing | all-powerful | all-seeing | all-wise | almighty | boundless | ceaseless | changeless | coeternal | constant | continual | continuous | countless | creating | creative | dateless | deathless | endless | enduring | eternally the same | eterne | ever-being | ever-durable | ever-during | everlasting | everliving | exhaustless | extending everywhere | fixed | glorious | good | hallowed | highest | holy | illimitable | illimited | immeasurable | immemorial | immense | immortal | immutable | incalculable | incessant | incomprehensible | indestructible | inexhaustible | infinite | infinitely continuous | innumerable | interminable | interminate | invariable | just | lasting | limitless | loving | luminous | majestic | making | measureless | merciful | never-ceasing | never-ending | no end of | nonstop | nonterminating | nonterminous | numinous | olamic | omnipotent | omnipresent | omniscient | one | perdurable | permanent | perpetual | persistent | radiant | recurrent | relentless | sacred | sempiternal | shaping | shoreless | sovereign | steady | sumless | supreme | termless | timeless | ubiquitous | unalterable | unbounded | unceasing | unchanged | unchanging | uncircumscribed | undefined | undiminished | undying | unending | unfaltering | unfathomable | unintermitting | uninterrupted | universal | unlimited | unmeasurable | unmeasured | unnumbered | unplumbed | unremitting | untold | unvarying | unwavering | without bound | without end | without limit | without measure | without number See Also | Eternal In Webster's Dictionary \E*ter"nal\, a. [F. ['e]ternel, L. aeternalis, fr.
aeternus. See {Etern}.]
1. Without beginning or end of existence; always existing.
The eternal God is thy refuge. --Deut.
xxxiii. 27.
To know wether there were any real being, whose
duration has been eternal. --Locke.
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. --2 Tim. ii.
10.
3. Continued without intermission; perpetual; ceaseless;
constant.
And fires eternal in thy temple shine. --Dryden.
4. Existing at all times without change; immutable.
Hobbes believed the eternal truths which he opposed.
--Dryden.
What are the eternal objects of poetry among all
nations, and at all times? --M. Arnold.
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}.
\E*ter"nal\, n. 1. One of the appellations of God. Law whereby the Eternal himself doth work. --Hooker. 2. That which is endless and immortal. --Young. |
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