eternal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English eternal, from Old French eternal, from Late Latin aeternālis, from Latin aeternus (“eternal”), from aevum (“age”). Displaced native Old English ēċe.
Inflected forms:
form: more eternal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most eternal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: æternal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: æternall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: eternall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: eternals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: æternal
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: æternall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: eternall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Lasting forever; unending.
pos: adj
examples: But here again it is another question, quite different from our having an idea of eternity, to know whether there were any real being, whose duration has been eternal.
Thy smoking altar shall be fat with food / Of incense and the grateful steam of blood; / Burnt-offerings morn and evening shall be thine, / And fires eternal in thy temple shine.
Organic life is nothing but a genetic mutation, an accident. Your lives are measured in years and decades. You wither and die.
We are eternal. The pinnacle of evolution and existence. Before us, you are nothing. Your extinction is inevitable. We are the end of everything.
In a bid to understand the eternal mystery that is woman, Bart goes to the least qualified possible source for advice and counsel: his father, who remarkably seems to have made it to his mid-30s without quite figuring out much of anything.
gloss: Existing outside time; as opposed to sempiternal, existing within time but everlastingly.
pos: adj
gloss: Constant; perpetual; ceaseless; ever-present.
pos: adj
tags: excessive
examples: Beneath him you might have seen the three of us - myself, sunburnt, young, and vigorous after our open-air tramp; Summerlee, solemn but still critical, behind his eternal pipe; Lord John, as keen as a razor-edge, with his supple, alert figure leaning upon his rifle, and his eager eyes fixed eagerly upon the speaker.
gloss: Exceedingly great or bad; used as an intensifier.
pos: adj
tags: dated
examples: some eternal villain
gloss: One who lives forever; an immortal.
pos: noun
examples: Yes, I want that raw power that is only offered to the eternals or creators
Synonyms: ageful
agelong
amaranthine
celestial
endless
enduring
eternal
eterne
everduring
evergreen
everlasting
eviternal
forever
heavenly
imperishable
indesinent
lasting
never-ending
perennial
permanent
perpetual
perpetuate
persistent
sempiternal
timeless
unending
undeadly
undying
Antonyms: ephemeral
fleeting
impermanent
mortal
momentary
temporary
transient
unperpetual
unperpetuated
Related words: boundless
ceaseless
continual
incessant
infinite
interminable
limitless
unceasing
unlimited
eternalize
eternity
continuous
Derived words: coeternal
crater of eternal darkness
eternal black hole
eternalism
eternalist
eternality
eternalize
eternal life
eternally
eternal marriage
eternalness
eternal now
eternal recurrence
eternal rest
eternal return
Eternal September
eternal sin
eternal sleep
eternal triangle
hope springs eternal
hope springs eternal in the human breast
life eternal
noneternal
on eternal patrol
peak of eternal light
supereternal
uneternal
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