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everlasting 音標拼音: [ ,ɛvɚl'æstɪŋ] a. 永恒的,持久的,無止境的 永恆的,持久的,無止境的 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" [ synonym: { 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" [ synonym: { 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 [ synonym: { everlasting}, { everlasting flower}] Everlasting \ Ever* last" ing\ a. 1. Lasting or enduring forever; exsisting or continuing without end; immortal; eternal. " The Everlasting God." -- Gen. xx1. 33. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Continuing indefinitely, or during a long period; perpetual; sometimes used, colloquially, as a strong intensive; as, this everlasting nonsence. [ 1913 Webster] I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee . . . the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. -- Gen xvii. 8. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] Whether we shall meet again I know not; Therefore our everlasting farewell take; Forever, and forever farewell, Cassius. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] { Everlasting flower}. Sane as { Everlasting}, n., 3. { Everlasting pea}, an ornamental plant ({ Lathyrus latifolius}) related to the pea; -- so called because it is perennial. [ 1913 Webster]
Everlasting \ Ev` er* last" ing\, n. 1. Eternal duration, past or future; eternity. [ 1913 Webster] From everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. -- Ps. xc. 2. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( With the definite article) The Eternal Being; God. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] 4. A cloth fabric for shoes, etc. See { Lasting}. [ 1913 Webster] 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 |
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