lasting
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
Inflected forms:
form: more lasting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most lasting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: lastings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Persisting for an extended period of time.
pos: adj
examples: After World War I it was hoped that a lasting peace had been achieved. It hadn’t.
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.
hasty wroth, and heedlesse hazardry
Doe breede repentaunce late, and lasting infamy.
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 […]
I knew that nought was lasting, but now even
Change grows too changeable, without being new:
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.
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.
gloss: Persisting forever.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: 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.
Things that are first must give place, but things that are last, are lasting.
gloss: In full lasting cloth: a durable, plain woven fabric formerly used for making clothes and for the uppers of women's shoes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
gloss: The act or process of shaping footwear on a last.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The action or state of persisting; the time during which something or someone persists.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: 1598, I. D. (possibly John Dee) (translator), Aristotles Politiques, or Discourses of Gouernment, London: Adam Islip, Chapter 12, p. 334,
But all things that haue beginning, must come to an end, and whatsoeuer groweth, must likewise deminish, being subiect to corruption and change, according to the time appointed vnto it by the course of Nature, as is seene by experience in plants, and in wights, which haue their ages and lastings certaine and determined.
[…] it may be some kinde of Prophecy, of the continuance, and lasting of these Letters, that having been scattered, more then Sibyls leaves, I cannot say into parts, but corners of the World, they have recollected and united themselves […]
But concerning the several degrees of lasting, wherewith Ideas are imprinted on the Memory, we may observe […]
Synonyms: abiding
chronic
continuate
diuturnal
durable
durative
endurable
enduring
extending
hard-wearing
lasting
long-drawn-out
long-lasting
longevous
longsome
perdurable
persistent
prolonged
protracted
Antonyms: consumable
dureless
ephemeral
fleeting
nondurable
perishable
short-lived
transient
transitory
undurable
unlasting
Related words: indurable
lastingly
lastingness
tolerable
Derived words: lastingly
lastingness
long-lasting
unlasting
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