'Eternal' definitions:
Definition of 'eternal'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Continuing forever or indefinitely; "the ageless themes of love and revenge"; "eternal truths"; "life everlasting"; "hell's perpetual fires"; "the unending bliss of heaven" [syn: ageless, aeonian, eonian, eternal, everlasting, perpetual, unending, unceasing]
adjective
Tiresomely long; seemingly without end; "endless debates"; "an endless conversation"; "the wait seemed eternal"; "eternal quarreling"; "an interminable sermon" [syn: endless, eternal, interminable]
Definition of 'Eternal'
From: GCIDE
- Eternal \E*ter"nal\, a. [F. ['e]ternel, L. aeternalis, fr. aeternus. See Etern.]
- 1. Without beginning or end of existence; always existing. [1913 Webster]
- The eternal God is thy refuge. --Deut. xxxiii. 27. [1913 Webster]
- To know wether there were any real being, whose duration has been eternal. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Without end of existence or duration; everlasting; endless; immortal. [1913 Webster]
- That they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory. --2 Tim. ii. 10. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Continued without intermission; perpetual; ceaseless; constant. [1913 Webster]
- And fires eternal in thy temple shine. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Existing at all times without change; immutable. [1913 Webster]
- Hobbes believed the eternal truths which he opposed. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- What are the eternal objects of poetry among all nations, and at all times? --M. Arnold. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Exceedingly great or bad; -- used as a strong intensive. "Some eternal villain." [1913 Webster]
- The Eternal City, an appellation of Rome.
- Syn: Everlasting; endless; infinite; ceaseless; perpetual; interminable. See Everlasting. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Eternal'
From: GCIDE
- Eternal \E*ter"nal\, n.
- 1. One of the appellations of God. [1913 Webster]
- Law whereby the Eternal himself doth work. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which is endless and immortal. --Young. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'eternal'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ageless,
- all-comprehensive,
- all-inclusive,
- all-knowing,
- all-powerful,
- all-seeing,
- all-wise,
- almighty,
- boundless,
- ceaseless,
- changeless,
- coeternal,
- constant,
- continual,
- continuous,
- countless,
- creating,
- creative,
- dateless,
- deathless,
- endless,
- enduring,
- eternally the same,
- eterne,
- ever-being,
- ever-durable,
- ever-during,
- everlasting,
- everliving,
- exhaustless,
- extending everywhere,
- fixed,
- glorious,
- good,
- hallowed,
- highest,
- holy,
- illimitable,
- illimited,
- immeasurable,
- immemorial,
- immense,
- immortal,
- immutable,
- incalculable,
- incessant,
- incomprehensible,
- indestructible,
- inexhaustible,
- infinite,
- infinitely continuous,
- innumerable,
- interminable,
- interminate,
- invariable,
- just,
- lasting,
- limitless,
- loving,
- luminous,
- majestic,
- making,
- measureless,
- merciful,
- never-ceasing,
- never-ending,
- no end of,
- nonstop,
- nonterminating,
- nonterminous,
- numinous,
- olamic,
- omnipotent,
- omnipresent,
- omniscient,
- one,
- perdurable,
- permanent,
- perpetual,
- persistent,
- radiant,
- recurrent,
- relentless,
- sacred,
- sempiternal,
- shaping,
- shoreless,
- sovereign,
- steady,
- sumless,
- supreme,
- termless,
- timeless,
- ubiquitous,
- unalterable,
- unbounded,
- unceasing,
- unchanged,
- unchanging,
- uncircumscribed,
- undefined,
- undiminished,
- undying,
- unending,
- unfaltering,
- unfathomable,
- unintermitting,
- uninterrupted,
- universal,
- unlimited,
- unmeasurable,
- unmeasured,
- unnumbered,
- unplumbed,
- unremitting,
- untold,
- unvarying,
- unwavering,
- without bound,
- without end,
- without limit,
- without measure,
- without number