everlasting
Other forms: everlastings
Something that's everlasting is eternal; it lasts forever, or seems like it does. Many anti-war activists dream of everlasting peace.
The adjective everlasting can literally mean exactly what it sounds like, but it's frequently used colloquially to exaggerate. You might compliment your friend's speech by saying, "You have my everlasting respect," or describe a lovely day by saying, "It's been like an everlasting dream." In a religious context, the word is used quite literally: "God promises everlasting life."
Definitions of everlasting
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continuing forever or indefinitely
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without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifierssynonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utterunmitigatednot diminished or moderated in intensity or severity; sometimes used as an intensifier
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any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or colorsynonyms: everlasting flowertypes:Acroclinium roseum, pink paper daisy, pink-and-white everlastingflower of southwestern Australia having bright pink daisylike papery flowers; grown for dryingAnaphalis margaritacea, cottonweed, pearly everlastingan American everlasting having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly white bractscudweedany of numerous plants of the genus Gnaphalium having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or colorHelichrysum bracteatum, golden everlasting, strawflower, yellow paper daisyAustralian plant naturalized in Spain having flowers of lemon yellow to deep gold; the frequent choice of those who love dried flowersstrawflowerany of various plants of the genus HelipterumHelichrysum secundiflorum, Ozothamnus secundiflorus, cascade everlastingshrub with white woolly branches and woolly leaves having fragrant flowers forming long sprays; flowers suitable for drying; sometimes placed in genus HelichrysumHelipterum manglesii, Rhodanthe manglesii, Swan River everlasting, rhodantheAustralian annual everlasting having light pink nodding flower heads; sometimes placed in genus HelipterumXeranthemum annuum, immortellemostly widely cultivated species of everlasting flowers having usually purple flowers; southern Europe to Iran; naturalized elsewhereGnaphalium sylvaticum, chafeweed, wood cudweedweedy perennial of north temperate regions having woolly foliage and dirty white flowers in a leafy spiketype of:composite, composite plantconsidered the most highly evolved dicotyledonous plants, characterized by florets arranged in dense heads that resemble single flowers
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