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Perpetual
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What's The Definition Of Perpetual?
[adj] occurring so frequently as to seem ceaseless or uninterrupted; "a child's incessant questions"; "your perpetual (or continual) complaints"
[adj] 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 standards in a democracy"; "man's unceasing warfare with drought and isolation"; "unremitting demands of hunger" [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 Perpetual: ageless | ceaseless | constant | continual | continuous | endless | eternal | everlasting | incessant | lasting | never-ending | permanent | unceasing | unending | uninterrupted | unremitting Related Terms | Find terms related to Perpetual: abiding | aged | ageless | age-long | all-comprehensive | all-inclusive | all-knowing | all-powerful | all-seeing | all-wise | almighty | ancient | antique | boundless | ceaseless | changeless | chattering | chronic | coeternal | constant | continual | continuing | continuous | countless | creating | creative | dateless | diuturnal | durable | endless | enduring | eternal | eternally the same | eterne | ever-being | ever-durable | ever-during | evergreen | everlasting | everliving | exhaustless | extending everywhere | firm | fixed | frozen | glorious | good | hallowed | hardy | highest | holy | illimitable | illimited | immeasurable | immemorial | immense | immobile | immortal | immutable | incalculable | incessant | incomprehensible | indestructible | inexhaustible | infinite | infinitely continuous | innumerable | intact | interminable | interminate | intransient | invariable | inveterate | inviolate | just | lasting | limitless | longeval | longevous | long-lasting | long-lived | long-standing | long-term | loving | luminous | machine gun | macrobiotic | majestic | making | measureless | merciful | never-ceasing | never-ending | no end of | nonstop | nonterminating | nonterminous | numinous | of long duration | of long standing | olamic | omnipotent | omnipresent | omniscient | one | oscillating | perdurable | perduring | perennial | permanent | persistent | persisting | pulsating | quiescent | radiant | rapid | recurrent | regular | remaining | repeated | repetitive | rigid | sacred | sempervirent | sempiternal | shaping | shoreless | solid | sovereign | stable | staccato | static | stationary | staying | steadfast | steady | stuttering | sumless | supreme | sustained | termless | timeless | torpid | tough | ubiquitous | unaltered | unbounded | unbroken | unceasing | unchangeable | unchanged | unchanging | unchecked | uncircumscribed | undefined | undestroyed | undeviating | unending | unfading | unfailing | unfathomable | unintermitted | unintermittent | unintermitting | uninterrupted | universal | unlimited | unmeasurable | unmeasured | unnumbered | unplumbed | unremitting | unshifting | unstopped | untold | unvaried | unvarying | vibrating | vital | without bound | without end | without limit | without measure | without number See Also | Perpetual In Webster's Dictionary \Per*pet"u*al\, a. [OE. perpetuel, F. perp['e]tuel,
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. --Shak.
Perpetual feast of nectared sweets. --Milton.
{Circle of perpetual apparition}, or {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}.
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