eternal
without beginning or end; lasting forever; always existing (opposed to temporal): eternal life.
something that is eternal.
the Eternal. God.
Origin of eternal
1synonym study For eternal
Other words for eternal
Opposites for eternal
Other words from eternal
- e·ter·nal·i·ty [ee-tur-nal-i-tee], /ˌi tɜrˈnæl ɪ ti/, e·ter·nal·ness, noun
- e·ter·nal·ly, adverb
- non·e·ter·nal, adjective
- non·e·ter·nal·ness, noun
- pre·e·ter·nal, adjective
- qua·si-e·ter·nal, adjective
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How to use eternal in a sentence
Motivated by eternal salvation, parents and leaders made sure the children learned to read.
Martin Luther Rewired Your Brain - Issue 96: Rewired | Joseph Henrich | February 17, 2021 | NautilusTo us mayfly-humans, they may as well be eternal and unchanging.
See a Billion-Year Dance of Earth’s Tectonic Plates in 40 Seconds | Jason Dorrier | February 14, 2021 | Singularity HubYet even as the glow from the contests and bikinis faded, their pictures still command attention today, an exuberance of sex and life imbued with the permanence of an eternal flame.
In another, he warns that the “price of freedom is eternal vigilance,” according to a recording from the Detroit News.
Michigan kidnapping plot, like so many other extremist crimes, foreshadowed on social media | Craig Timberg, Isaac Stanley-Becker | October 8, 2020 | Washington PostHosts are, by their nature, “eternal beginners” — each bidder effectively starts from scratch on a megaproject where there is, in that city, almost no relevant institutional memory for running one.
The speaker conjures up centuries of collective sagacity, aligning oneself with an eternal, inarguable good.
Politicians Only Love Journalists When They're Dead | Luke O’Neil | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTHe stated—quite rightly—that animals are never mentioned in connection with eternal life in the Bible.
Sorry, Internet: Pope Francis Didn't Open Paradise to Pets | Candida Moss | December 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn 2008 then Pope Benedict XVI stated quite pointedly that animals are “not called to the eternal life.”
Sorry, Internet: Pope Francis Didn't Open Paradise to Pets | Candida Moss | December 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhat had seemed immutable and eternal (“With the Soviet Union forever”) turned out to be a fleeting episode.
It may also have left them somewhat untethered, drifting in between their own lives and the eternal mysteries.
Sor Juana: Mexico’s Most Erotic Poet and Its Most Dangerous Nun | Katie Baker | November 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWas he really condemned to an eternal solitude because of the girl who had died so many years ago?
Bella Donna | Robert HichensUnder all man's dreams of eternal gods and eternal heavens lies man's passion for the eternal feminine.
God and my Neighbour | Robert BlatchfordGoodness only knew what a falchion was, but there was the Griffin, and his history was an improvement upon the eternal Cat.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II | Rudyard KiplingAnd yet the demand has the clearest and strongest basis of natural and eternal justice, as any fair mind must confess.
Glances at Europe | Horace GreeleyHere again we have the landscape of Lorraine and the eternal and infinitely varied theme of rural labour.
Bastien Lepage | Fr. Crastre
British Dictionary definitions for eternal
/ (ɪˈtɜːnəl) /
without beginning or end; lasting for ever: eternal life
(as noun): the eternal
(often capital) denoting or relating to that which is without beginning and end, regarded as an attribute of God
unchanged by time, esp being true or valid for all time; immutable: eternal truths
seemingly unceasing; occurring again and again: eternal bickering
Origin of eternal
1Derived forms of eternal
- eternality or eternalness, noun
- eternally, adverb
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