everlasting meaning

everlasting as an adjective

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

   Synonyms: ageless, aeonian, eonian, eternal, perpetual, unending, unceasing

   Similar: permanent

   Related forms: everlastingness

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 thorough nuisance
   • a thoroughgoing villain
   • utter nonsense
   • the unadulterated truth

   Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, stark, staring, thorough, thoroughgoing, utter, unadulterated

   Similar: unmitigated

everlasting as a noun

1. any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color

   Synonyms: everlasting flower

   Type of: composite

   Kinds: pink-and-white everlasting, pearly everlasting, cudweed, strawflower, cascade everlasting, Swan River everlasting, immortelle

How to pronounce everlasting

everlasting is pronounced /ˌɛvɚˈlæstɪŋ/ in American English. It has 4 syllables, with the stress on the third syllable.

Words that rhyme with everlasting

• blasting
• contrasting
• casting
• fasting
• recasting