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everlasting🔊

Lasting or enduring forever; existing or continuing without end.

📑 Synonyms: immortal eternal

Continuing indefinitely, or during a long period; perpetual; sometimes used, colloquially, as a strong intensive.

💬 Quotations
Wot makes the soldier's 'eart to penk, wot makes 'im to perspire? / It isn't standin' up to charge nor lyin' down to fire; / But it's everlastin' waitin' on an everlastin' road / For the commissariat camel an' 'is commissariat load. / O the oont, O the oont, O the commissariat oont! / With 'is silly neck a-bobbin' like a basket full o' snakes; / We packs 'im like an idol, an' you ought to 'ear 'im grunt, / An' when we gets 'im loaded up 'is blessed girth-rope breaks.

(philosophy) Existing with infinite temporal duration (as opposed to existence outside of time).

(colloquial) Extremely.

An everlasting flower.

(historical) A durable cloth fabric for shoes, etc.