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perpetual
[ per-pech-oo-uhl ]
adjective
- continuing or enduring forever; everlasting.
Antonyms: temporary
- lasting an indefinitely long time:
perpetual snow.
- continuing or continued without intermission or interruption; ceaseless:
a perpetual stream of visitors all day.
Synonyms: uninterrupted, unending, constant, incessant, continuous
Antonyms: discontinuous
- blooming almost continuously throughout the season or the year.
noun
- a hybrid rose that is perpetual.
- a perennial plant.
perpetual
/ pəˈpɛtjʊəl /
adjective
- usually prenominal eternal; permanent
- usually prenominal seemingly ceaseless because often repeated
your perpetual complaints
- horticulture blooming throughout the growing season or year
noun
- (of a crop plant) continually producing edible parts: perpetual spinach
- a plant that blooms throughout the growing season
Derived Forms
- perˈpetually, adverb
Other Words From
- per·pet·u·al·i·ty per·pet·u·al·ness noun
- per·pet·u·al·ly adverb
- non·per·pet·u·al adjective
- qua·si-per·pet·u·al adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of perpetual1
Word History and Origins
Origin of perpetual1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
We were in a perpetual state of anxiety because of how challenging is was for us to be in public.
News organizations’ perpetual quests to stifle their journalists’ opinions — whether uttered on Twitter, at a conference, or in a recorded chat published by Project Veritas — is an Sisyphean struggle.
A way of being a perpetual passenger, insisting you’re not equipped to drive.
That relentless surge has forced Wall Street into a perpetual game of catch-up, with analysts’ average price target still far below the current stock price.
Third, our tendency to avoid dealing with negative emotions puts people in a perpetual cycle of ignoring unpleasant feelings, which amplifies stress and the risk of emotional health problems.
But millions of rules result in perpetual error, and, as a terminal side effect, make leadership and accomplishment illegal.
Big discounts and cheap credit keep them coming back for more; and keep millions in perpetual debt.
Hollande is ‘the king of doublespeak, ambiguity, and perpetual lies’
On Wall Street, Bank of America plays a perpetual second fiddle to JPMorgan Chase Co., the only U.S. bank that holds more assets.
Some people upload content to Facebook for the perpetual online access it provides.
The inheritance of the children of sinners shall perish, and with their posterity shall be a perpetual reproach.
He lived in a perpetual fear and danger of discovery; and discovery now was but another name, for poison—prison—death.
He shows that under free individual competition there is a perpetual waste of energy.
The exercise of confessing the name of God, corresponds to that of joining to him in a perpetual covenant.
We flocked round the duke, and hailed his first conquest as a promise of perpetual success.
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