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everlasting

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Adjective

  1. Lasting or enduring forever; endless, eternal.
  2. Lasting or enduring forever; endless, eternal: Chiefly of a deity or other supernatural being: having always existed and will continue to exist forever; eternal.
  3. Lasting or enduring forever; endless, eternal: Synonym of sempiternal (“having infinite temporal duration, rather than outside time and thus lacking temporal duration altogether”).
  4. Continuing for a long period; eternal.
  5. Happening all the time, especially to a tiresome extent; constant, incessant, unending.
  6. Of clothing or fabric: lasting a long time; very durable or hard-wearing.
  7. Chiefly in the name of a plant: Having flowers that retain their colour and form when dried.
  8. Chiefly in the name of a plant: Of a plant or plant part: synonym of perennial (“active throughout the year, or having a life cycle of more than two growing seasons”).
  9. Used as an intensifier.

Adverb

  1. Synonym of everlastingly: Used as an intensifier: extremely, very.
  2. Synonym of everlastingly: In an everlasting (adjective sense 1) manner; forever.

Noun

  1. Chiefly with a descriptive word: short for everlasting flower (“any of several plants, chiefly of the family Asteraceae (principally the tribe Gnaphalieae), having flowers that retain their colour and form when dried; also, a flower of such a plant”)
  2. Preceded by the: someone or something that lasts forever, or that that has always existed and will continue to exist forever; an eternal, an immortal; specifically (Christianity), God.
  3. Synonym of lasting (“(uncountable) a durable, plain, woven fabric formerly used for making clothes and for the uppers of women's shoes; (countable) a quantity of such fabric”).
  4. Short for everlasting trimming (“(uncountable) an embroidered edging used on underclothes; (countable) a quantity of such edging”)

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