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perpetual - definition and meaning
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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Lasting forever; never-ending.
- adjective Continuing or being so for an indefinitely long time: synonym: continual.
- adjective Flowering throughout the growing season.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A perennial plant, especially a rose which blooms every month of the year.
- Continuing for ever in future time; destined to continue or be continued through the ages; everlasting: as, a perpetual covenant; a perpetual statute.
- Continuing or continued without intermission; uninterrupted; continuous; continual:
- Synonyms Everlasting, Immortal, etc. (see
eternal ), unceasing, ceaseless, unfailing, perenuial, enduring, permanent, lasting, endless, everlasting. - 2. Continual, Incessant, etc. (see
incessant ), constant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Neverceasing; continuing forever or for an unlimited time; unfailing; everlasting; continuous.
- adjective See under
Circle . - adjective a calendar so devised that it may be adjusted for any month or year.
- adjective (Ch. of Eng.) a curacy in which all the tithes are appropriated, and no vicarage is endowed.
- adjective See under
Motion . - adjective See Endless screw, under
Screw .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Lasting forever, or for anindefinitely long time - adjective Set up to be in
effect or havetenure for anunlimited duration - adjective
Continuing uninterrupted - adjective
Flowering throughout thegrowing season
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing
- adjective continuing forever or indefinitely
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English perpetuel, from Old French, from Latin perpetuālis, from perpetuus, continuous : per-, per- + petere, to go toward; see pet- in Indo-European roots.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Latin perpetualis ("universal").
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Examples
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We have heard from time to time of the term perpetual motion.
Aether and Gravitation William George Hooper
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Taken literally, the term perpetual motion refers to movement that goes on forever.
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There are often humorous passages, for the Altrurians are inextinguishably amused by our illogicality, and what they call the perpetual _non sequiturs_ of our lives and laws.
Through the Eye of the Needle A Romance William Dean Howells 1878
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While non-recurring revenues will include all revenues from non-recurring sources, which we define as perpetual license fees and professional services and other.
unknown title 2011
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For this bahar of cloves, the Dutch give fifty dollars, pursuant to what they term their perpetual contract; but, for the more readily obtaining some loading, I agreed to pay them sixty dollars.
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Rather than exhibit a selection of faits accomplis, Glaser uses this show as a narrative platform to address what he describes as a perpetual sense of "doubt and confusion."
NYT > Home Page By STEVEN HELLER 2010
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Back in 2008 a joint statement from several rights organizations said they were protesting against what they called a perpetual policy of discrimination and marginalization from the government.
iToot Stream 2010
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Tim O'Reilly, the open-source advocate, has used the term perpetual beta positively as an indication of open-source development processes wherein users are "
Slate Magazine 2009
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Tim O'Reilly, the open-source advocate, has used the term perpetual beta positively as an indication of open-source development processes wherein users are "
Slate Magazine 2009
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His last season was 1966, where he won 27 games pitching in perpetual agony.
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An emerging community development tool, known as a perpetual purpose trust (sometimes referred to as a PPT), seeks to address that challenge.
How Can a Perpetual Purpose Trust Build Community? - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly April De Simone, Adriana Abizadeh, Kevin Clegg, Paul MacArthur 2025
Related Words
synonyms (185)
Words with the same meaning
- abiding
- age-long
- aged
- ageless
- all-comprehensive
- all-inclusive
- all-knowing
- all-powerful
- all-seeing
- all-wise
- almighty
- ancient
- antique
- boundless
- ceaseless
- changeless
- chattering
- chronic
- coeternal
- constant
- continual
- continuing
- continuous
- countless
- creating
- creative
- dateless
- diuturnal
- durable
- endless
- enduring
- eternal
- eternally the same
- eterne
- ever-being
- ever-durable
- ever-during
- evergreen
- everlasting
- everliving
- exhaustless
- extending everywhere
- firm
- fixed
- frozen
- glorious
- good
- hallowed
- hardy
- highest
- holy
- illimitable
- illimited
- immeasurable
- immemorial
- immense
- immobile
- immortal
- immutable
- incalculable
- incessant
- incomprehensible
- indestructible
- inexhaustible
- infinite
- infinitely continuous
- innumerable
- intact
- interminable
- interminate
- intransient
- invariable
- inveterate
- inviolate
- just
- lasting
- limitless
- long-lasting
- long-lived
- long-standing
- long-term
- longeval
- longevous
- loving
- luminous
- machine gun
- macrobiotic
- majestic
- making
- measureless
- merciful
- never-ceasing
- never-ending
- neverceasing
- no end of
- nonstop
- nonterminating
- nonterminous
- numinous
- of long duration
- of long standing
- olamic
- omnipotent
- omnipresent
- omniscient
- one
- oscillating
- perdurable
- perduring
- perennial
- permanent
- persistent
- persisting
- pulsating
- quiescent
- radiant
- rapid
- recurrent
- regular
- remaining
- repeated
- repetitive
- rigid
- sacred
- sempervirent
- sempiternal
- shaping
- shoreless
- solid
- sovereign
- stable
- staccato
- static
- stationary
- staying
- steadfast
- steady
- stuttering
- sumless
- supreme
- sustained
- termless
- timeless
- torpid
- tough
- ubiquitous
- unaltered
- unbounded
- unbroken
- unceasing
- unchangeable
- unchanged
- unchanging
- unchecked
- uncircumscribed
- undefined
- undestroyed
- undeviating
- unending
- unfading
- unfailing
- unfathomable
- unintermitted
- unintermittent
- unintermitting
- uninterrupted
- universal
- unlimited
- unmeasurable
- unmeasured
- unnumbered
- unplumbed
- unremitting
- unshifting
- unstopped
- untold
- unvaried
- unvarying
- vibrating
- vital
- without bound
- without end
- without limit
- without measure
- without number
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