everlasting

Meaning

Adj

1. Lasting or enduring forever; endless, eternal.
2. Lasting or enduring forever; endless, eternal.
3. Lasting or enduring forever; endless, eternal.
4. (excessive, informal) Continuing for a long period; eternal.
5. (excessive, informal) Happening all the time, especially to a tiresome extent; constant, incessant, unending.
6. (excessive, informal) Of clothing or fabric: lasting a long time; very durable or hard-wearing.
7. (excessive, informal) Chiefly in the name of a plant:
8. (excessive, informal) Chiefly in the name of a plant:
9. (US, archaic, excessive, informal, regional) Used as an intensifier.

Adv

1. (US, archaic, informal, regional) Synonym of everlastingly.
2. (obsolete) Synonym of everlastingly.

Noun

1. (countable) 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. (archaic, countable) 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. (countable, historical, uncountable) 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. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, historical, obsolete, uncountable) Short for everlasting trimming (“(uncountable) an embroidered edging used on underclothes; (countable) a quantity of such edging”)

Synonyms

eternal

perpetual

undying

never-ending

endless

permanent

immortal

unending

constant

interminable

infinite

perennial

timeless

eternity

indefinite

imperishable

ageless

without end

sempiternal

ancient

lasting

enduring

eonian

forever

aeonian

unceasing

indestructible

invariable

everlasting flower

utter

agelong

consummate

eternally

complete

inexhaustible

unchangeable

double-dyed

stark

thoroughgoing

pure

perpetuity

immortality

sodding

staring

deathless

arrant

gross

continuous

inveterate

perfect

Translations

éternel

eterno

perpétuel

eterno

ewig

eterno

altijddurend

eeuwig

permanent

perpétuo

αιώνιος

bêdawî

perene

sonsuz

imperecível

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌɛvɚˈlæstɪŋ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: -

In summary

From Middle English ever-lasting (“(adjective) eternal, perpetual; constant; (adverb) eternally; (noun) eternity”), from ever (“at all times, always, constantly; eternally, perpetually; regularly; etc.”) + lasting (“continuing, lasting; eternal; etc.”).
* Ever is derived from Old English ǣfre (“ever”), possibly from ā (“always, ever”) + in fēore (“in life”). Ā is from Proto-West Germanic *aiw (“eternity; long time”), from Proto-Germanic *aiwaz (“long time; eternity”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey- (“life, vital force; long time; eternity”); and fēore is the dative singular of feorh (“life”), from Proto-West Germanic *ferh (“life; kind of tree”), from Proto-Germanic *ferhwą (“body; life; tree”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *perkʷ- (“oak tree”) (as the oak represented life and vitality in Germanic mythology).
* Lasting is derived from lasten (“to continue, last; etc.”) + -ing (suffix forming present participle forms of verbs, often used as adjectives)); and lasten from Old English lǣstan (“to follow, pursue; to carry out, perform”), from Proto-West Germanic *laistijan (“to follow, pursue; to carry out, perform”), from Proto-Germanic *laistijaną (“to follow, pursue”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leys- (“to trace, track”).
By surface analysis, ever (adverb) + lasting (adjective).