'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]