lasting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæstɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈlɑːstɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈleəstɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈlastɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɑːstɪŋ
rhymes: -æstɪŋ
Forms: form: more lasting
form: most lasting
Senses: examples: text: After World War I it was hoped that a lasting peace had been achieved. It hadn’t.
text: I was taken to the theatre for the first time when I was six years old, and the experience made a lasting impression on me.
text: hasty wroth, and heedlesse hazardry
Doe breede repentaunce late, and lasting infamy.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 249:
text: Look ye, Marriage is a lasting thing—if it were for six Months only, I might venture upon thee—but for all days of my Life—mercy upon me […]
ref: 1706, Susanna Centlivre, Love at a Venture, London: John Chantry, act V, page 63:
text: I knew that nought was lasting, but now even
Change grows too changeable, without being new:
ref: 1823 August 29, [Lord Byron], Don Juan. Cantos IX.—X.—and XI., London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John Hunt, […], →OCLC, canto XI, (please specify the stanza number):
text: Then his son bought a carven coffin hewn from a great log of fragrant wood which is used to bury the dead in and for nothing else because that wood is as lasting as iron, and more lasting than human bones, and Wang Lung was comforted.
ref: 1931, Pearl S. Buck, chapter 34, in The Good Earth, New York: Modern Library, published 1944, page 311:
text: Though they obviously realized that these episodes were part of something wonderful and important and lasting, the writers and producers couldn’t have imagined that 20 years later “Treehouse Of Horror” wouldn’t just survive; it’d thrive as one of the most talked-about and watched episodes of every season of The Simpsons.
ref: 2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
synonyms: abiding
durable
glosses: Persisting for an extended period of time.
examples: text: I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan,
Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death,
And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings
His soul and body to their lasting rest.
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene vii]:
text: Things that are first must give place, but things that are last, are lasting.
ref: 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC, page 24:
synonyms: word: eternal
word: everlasting
word: ageful
word: agelong
word: amaranthine
word: endless
word: enduring
word: eternal
word: eterne
word: everduring
word: evergreen
word: everlasting
word: eviternal
word: forever
word: imperishable
word: indesinent
word: lasting
word: neverending
word: perennial
word: permanent
word: perpetual
word: perpetuate
word: persistent
word: sempiternal
word: timeless
word: unending
word: undeadly
word: undying
glosses: Persisting forever.
Synonyms: word: abiding
word: chronic
word: continuate
word: diuturnal
word: durable
word: durative
word: enduring
word: extending
word: hard-wearing
word: lasting
word: long-drawn-out
word: long-lasting
word: longevous
word: longsome
word: perdurable
word: persistent
word: prolonged
word: protracted
Hyponyms: word: Indefinite period:
word: endless
word: eternal
word: everlasting
word: neverending
word: permanent
word: perpetual
word: intransient
word: ultrapermanent
word: undying
word: unending
word: Non-specific period; specific reference:
word: hourslong
word: minuteslong
word: all-day
word: all-night
word: dayslong
word: nightlong
word: nychthemeral
word: weeklong
word: weekslong
word: monthslong
word: seasonlong
word: springlong
word: decadeslong
word: perennial
word: plurennial
word: pluriennial
word: subdecadal
word: yearslong
word: Non-specific period; non-specific reference:
word: careerlong
word: lifelong
word: livelong
word: Specific period:
word: diary
word: triduan
word: trinoctial
word: quatridual
word: hebdomadal
word: menstrual
word: annual
word: biennial
word: triennial
word: quadrennial
word: quinquennial
word: sextennial
word: septennial
word: octennial
word: novennial
word: decennary
word: decennal
word: decennial
word: decennalian
word: quindecennial
word: vicennial
word: centennial
word: Not subject to decay:
word: imperishable
word: undecaying
word: unfading
word: unpaling
word: unwasting
word: Not deteriorating:
word: indestructible
word: indissoluble
word: undestroyable
word: unbreakable
word: unruinable
word: unwreckable
word: Having a long lifespan:
word: long-lived
word: longeval
Derived terms: lastingly
lastingness
long-lasting
unlasting
Related terms: word: endurable
word: indurable
word: lastingly
word: lastingness