Eternal
[ɪ'tɜːn(ə)l;iː-] or [ɪ'tɝnl]
Definition
(a.) Without beginning or end of existence; always existing.
(a.) Without end of existence or duration; everlasting; endless; immortal.
(a.) Continued without intermission; perpetual; ceaseless; constant.
(a.) Existing at all times without change; immutable.
(a.) Exceedingly great or bad; -- used as a strong intensive.
(n.) One of the appellations of God.
(n.) That which is endless and immortal.
Typist: Sol
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Endless, everlasting, interminable, ever-during, perpetual, ceaseless, unceasing, perennial.[2]. Imperishable, undying, never-dying, immortal.[3]. Immutable, unchangeable.
Edited by Jonathan
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Infinite, endless, everlasting, deathless, imperishable, never-dying,ceaseless, everliving, perpetual, undying, unceasing
ANT:Ephemeral, transient, temporal, fleeting, evanescent, sublunary
Typed by Aldo
Definition
adj. without beginning or end of existence: everlasting: ceaseless: unchangeable—(arch.) Eterne′.—v.t. Eter′nalise Eter′nise to make eternal: to immortalise.—n. Eter′nalist one who thinks that matter has existed from eternity.—adv. Eter′nally.—n. Eter′nity eternal duration: the state or time after death.—The Eternal an appellation of God; The eternities the eternal reality or truth.
Edited by Amber
Examples
- Eternal rigidity had seized upon it in a momentary transition between fervour and resignation. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Behold the baits with which he fishes for souls, giving a poor space of earthly life in exchange for eternal happiness hereafter. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- She was watching the fingers twitch across the eternal, mechanical, monotonous clock-face of time. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It deals with the eternal and the universal. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- To solve the mystery of the eternal hereafter, I imagine, I replied. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- There must be something short-sighted in the eternal arrangements, surely! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- A few weeks afterwards the poor woman's soul took its flight, I confidently hope, and solemnly believe, to a place of eternal happiness and rest. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- She put her hand on the arm of her care-worn, sallow father, and frothing her light draperies, proceeded over the eternal red carpet. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But I wanted a man friend, as eternal as you and I are eternal. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The lady had her husband's embroidered tobacco-pouch, and her store of paper in her hand, for the manufacture of the eternal cigarettes. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Each stone deity was possessed by sacred gladness, and the eternal fruition of love. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Without a word he turned and we followed the officer once again to the closed doors before the audience chamber of Issus, Goddess of Life Eternal. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Educationally, emphasis may not be put on eternal truth, but it is put on the authority of book and teacher, and individual variation is discouraged. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Ashore, it was--well, it was an eternal circus. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- She had felt so doomed up here in the eternal snow, as if there were no beyond. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I do not shrink from saying that it will not tend to your son's eternal welfare or to the glory of God. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I entered Eternal Rome by the Porta del Popolo, and saluted with awe its time-honoured space. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- They may say they do, for form's sake; but Lord, sir, d'ye think their first cry i' th' morning is, What shall I do to get hold on eternal life? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- In an eternal separation only can either of us hope for dignity and propriety of action. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- One of the lesser breed should feel honoured that a member of the holy race that was born to inherit life eternal should deign even to notice him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- If we went to Italy, to sacred and eternal Rome, we might with greater patience submit to the decree, which had laid her mighty towers low. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- So short now seemed the remaining voyage of life,--so near, so vivid, seemed eternal blessedness,--that life's uttermost woes fell from him unharming. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- She was standing quite close to me, so close that her bare arm touched mine as she finally faced Issus, Goddess of Life Eternal. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- What may not be expected in a country of eternal light? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Perched on its eternal hills, white and domed and solid, massed together and hooped with high gray walls, the venerable city gleamed in the sun. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Let us take comfort in the thought that his loss is our eternal gain. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- This is the land of eternal quiet, Where I can nestle in indolence curled, Far from the clamor of modern riot. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Witness, eternal God! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- That the knowledge at which geometry aims is knowledge of the eternal, and not of aught perishing and transient. Plato. The Republic.
- But those who see the absolute and eternal and immutable may be said to know, and not to have opinion only? Plato. The Republic.
Edited by Amber