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eternal
[ ih-tur-nl ]
adjective
- without beginning or end; lasting forever; always existing ( temporal ):
eternal life.
Synonyms: permanent
Antonyms: transitory
eternal quarreling;
eternal chatter.
eternal principles.
Synonyms: indestructible, imperishable, undying, deathless, immortal, timeless
Antonyms: mutable
- Metaphysics. existing outside all relations of time; not subject to change.
noun
- something that is eternal.
- the Eternal. God.
eternal
/ ɪˈtɜːnəl /
adjective
- 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
Derived Forms
- ˌeterˈnality, noun
- eˈternally, adverb
Other Words From
- e·ter·nal·i·ty [ee-tur-, nal, -i-tee], 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
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of eternal1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Motivated by eternal salvation, parents and leaders made sure the children learned to read.
To us mayfly-humans, they may as well be eternal and unchanging.
Yet 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.
Hosts 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.
He stated—quite rightly—that animals are never mentioned in connection with eternal life in the Bible.
In 2008 then Pope Benedict XVI stated quite pointedly that animals are “not called to the eternal life.”
What 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.
Was he really condemned to an eternal solitude because of the girl who had died so many years ago?
Under all man's dreams of eternal gods and eternal heavens lies man's passion for the eternal feminine.
Goodness only knew what a falchion was, but there was the Griffin, and his history was an improvement upon the eternal Cat.
And yet the demand has the clearest and strongest basis of natural and eternal justice, as any fair mind must confess.
Here again we have the landscape of Lorraine and the eternal and infinitely varied theme of rural labour.
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