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everlasting

Pronunciation: /ˌɛvəˈlɑːstɪŋ/

The English word “everlasting” has 14 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Lasting or enduring forever; endless, eternal.
  2. Chiefly of a deity or other supernatural being: having always existed and will continue to exist forever; eternal.
  3. Synonym of sempiternal (“having infinite temporal duration, rather than outside time and thus lacking temporal duration altogether”).
  4. Continuing for a long period; eternal.
  5. Happening all the time, especially to a tiresome extent; constant, incessant, unending.
  6. Of clothing or fabric: lasting a long time; very durable or hard-wearing.
  7. Having flowers that retain their colour and form when dried.
  8. Of a plant or plant part: synonym of perennial (“active throughout the year, or having a life cycle of more than two growing seasons”).
  9. Used as an intensifier.

adverb

  1. Used as an intensifier: extremely, very.
  2. In an everlasting (adjective sense 1) manner; forever.

noun

  1. 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. 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. 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”).

Etymology

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…

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