deathless

[ deth-lis ]
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adjective
  1. not subject to death; immortal: the belief that the human soul is deathless.

  2. unceasing; perpetual: his deathless devotion to the cause.

  1. likely to endure because of superior quality, timelessness, etc. (sometimes used ironically): deathless prose.

Origin of deathless

1
First recorded in 1590–1600; death + -less

Other words from deathless

  • death·less·ly, adverb
  • death·less·ness, noun

Words Nearby deathless

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How to use deathless in a sentence

  • Horace has given to his teacher, Orbilius, a deathless fame by the adjective plgsus.

    The Private Life of the Romans | Harold Whetstone Johnston
  • But the germ-cells or germplasm continue to be immortal or deathless in the same sense as in the simplest organisms.

    Taboo and Genetics | Melvin Moses Knight, Iva Lowther Peters, and Phyllis Mary Blanchard
  • Girls would be for ever an intrusion between such deathless and endeared friends as they were.

    Sinister Street, vol. 1 | Compton Mackenzie

British Dictionary definitions for deathless

deathless

/ (ˈdɛθlɪs) /


adjective
  1. immortal, esp because of greatness; everlasting

Derived forms of deathless

  • deathlessly, adverb
  • deathlessness, noun

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