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Eternal

Eternal Meaning & Definition
Eternal Definition And Meaning

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

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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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