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everlasting

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of everlasting

1 lasting forever

  • valentines typically express the giverʼs everlasting love and devotion
Synonyms of everlasting

ceaseless, dateless, deathless, endless, eternal, immortal, permanent, perpetual, undying, unending
Words Related to everlasting

durable, enduring, lasting, long-lived, persistent, stubborn

imperishable, indefeasible, indefectible, indelible, indestructible, indissoluble, inexpungible

timeless

abiding, stable, standing, steadfast, steady, unfailing, unfaltering

continual, continuing, continuous, incessant, unbroken, unceasing, uninterrupted, unremitting
Near Antonyms of everlasting

ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, fugacious, fugitive, momentary, passing, short-lived, transitory

interim, provisional, short-term
Antonyms of everlasting

impermanent, mortal, temporary, transient

2 having an existence or validity that does not change or diminish

  • Shakespeare's plays are still being performed 400 years later because they deal with everlasting truths and universal emotions
Synonyms of everlasting

abiding, ageless, continuing, dateless, enduring, eternal, immortal, imperishable, lasting, ongoing, perennial, perpetual, timeless, undying
Words Related to everlasting

ceaseless, endless, permanent

changeless, constant, stable, stationary, steady, unchanging, unvarying
Near Antonyms of everlasting

antiquated, archaic, dated, obsolete, outdated, outmoded, out-of-date, outworn, passé

everlasting

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of everlasting

1 endless time

  • that special bond that has existed between mother and child from everlasting
Synonyms of everlasting

eternity, foreverness, infinity, perpetuity
Words Related to everlasting

boundlessness, endlessness, interminableness, limitlessness, permanence, permanency, timelessness
Near Antonyms of everlasting

ephemerality, impermanence, temporariness, transience, transitoriness

2 capitalized the being worshipped as the creator and ruler of the universe

  • people who believe that the magnificence of the natural world is proof of the existence of the Everlasting
Synonyms of everlasting

Allah, Almighty, Author, Creator, deity, Divinity, Eternal, Father, God, Godhead, Jehovah, King, Lord, Maker, Providence, Supreme Being, Yahweh (also Jahveh)

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