[syn: arrant(a), complete(a), consummate(a), double-dyed(a), everlasting(a), gross(a), perfect(a), pure(a), sodding(a), stark(a), staring(a), thoroughgoing(a), utter(a), unadulterated]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Everlasting \Ev`er*last"ing\, n.
1. Eternal duration, past or future; eternity.
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From everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. --Ps.
xc. 2.
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2. (With the definite article) The Eternal Being; God.
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3. (Bot.) A plant whose flowers may be dried without losing
their form or color, as, the pearly everlasting
(Anaphalis margaritacea), the immortelle (Xeranthemum
anuum) of the French, the cudweeds, etc.
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4. A cloth fabric for shoes, etc. See Lasting.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Everlasting \Ever*last"ing\a.
1. Lasting or enduring forever; exsisting or continuing
without end; immortal; eternal. "The Everlasting God."
--Gen. xx1. 33.
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2. Continuing indefinitely, or during a long period;
perpetual; sometimes used, colloquially, as a strong
intensive; as, this everlasting nonsence.
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I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee . .
. the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession.
--Gen xvii. 8.
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And heard thy everlasting yawn confess
The pains and penalties of idleness. --Pope.
Syn: Eternal; immortal, interminable; endless; never-ending;
infinite; unceasing; uninterrupted; continual;
unintermitted; incessant.
Usage: -- Everlasting, Eternal. Eternal denotes (when
taken strictly) without beginning or end of duration;
everlasting is sometimes used in our version of the
Scriptures in the sense of eternal, but in modern
usage is confined to the future, and implies no
intermission as well as no end.
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Whether we shall meet again I know not;
Therefore our everlasting farewell take;
Forever, and forever farewell, Cassius. --Shak.
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Everlasting flower. Sane as Everlasting, n., 3.
Everlasting pea, an ornamental plant (Lathyrus
latifolius) related to the pea; -- so called because it
is perennial.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
everlasting
adj 1: continuing forever or indefinitely; "the ageless themes
of love and revenge"; "eternal truths"; "life
everlasting"; "hell's perpetual fires"; "the unending
bliss of heaven" [syn: ageless, aeonian, eonian,
eternal, everlasting, perpetual, unending,
unceasing]
2: without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative)
intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a
consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross
negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding
mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter
nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth" [syn: arrant(a),
complete(a), consummate(a), double-dyed(a),
everlasting(a), gross(a), perfect(a), pure(a),
sodding(a), stark(a), staring(a), thoroughgoing(a),
utter(a), unadulterated]
n 1: any of various plants of various genera of the family
Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of
form or color [syn: everlasting, everlasting flower]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
109 Moby Thesaurus words for "everlasting":
ageless, all-knowing, all-powerful, all-seeing, all-wise, almighty,
amaranthine, blah, boundless, broken-record, ceaseless, changeless,
coeternal, constant, continual, continuous, creating, creative,
dateless, deathless, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull,
dusty, embalmed, endless, eternal, eternally the same, eterne,
ever-being, ever-durable, ever-during, ever-fresh, everliving,
fadeless, frozen, glorious, good, hallowed, harping, highest, holy,
humdrum, immemorial, immortal, immutable, imperishable, incessant,
incorruptible, indestructible, infinite, interminable, invariable,
jog-trot, just, lasting, limitless, long-winded, loving, luminous,
majestic, making, merciful, monotonous, never-ceasing, never-dying,
never-ending, nonstop, nonterminating, nonterminous, numinous,
olamic, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, one, perdurable,
permanent, perpetual, prolix, radiant, sacred, sempiternal,
shaping, singsong, sovereign, steady, supreme, tedious, termless,
timeless, treadmill, ubiquitous, unbounded, unceasing, unchanging,
undefined, undying, unending, uneventful, unfading, unintermitting,
uninterrupted, unlimited, unremitting, unvarying, without end
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary:
Everlasting
eternal, applied to God (Gen. 21:33; Deut. 33:27; Ps. 41:13;
90:2). We also read of the "everlasting hills" (Gen. 49:26); an
"everlasting priesthood" (Ex. 40:15; Num. 25:13). (See ETERNAL.)
The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):
EVERLASTING, adj. Lasting forever. It is with no small diffidence
that I venture to offer this brief and elementary definition, for I am
not unaware of the existence of a bulky volume by a sometime Bishop of
Worcester, entitled, _A Partial Definition of the Word "Everlasting,"
as Used in the Authorized Version of the Holy Scriptures_. His book
was once esteemed of great authority in the Anglican Church, and is
still, I understand, studied with pleasure to the mind and profit of
the soul.