deathless

English

Etymology

From death +‎ -less.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛθləs/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Adjective

deathless (comparative more deathless, superlative most deathless)

1. Undying or immortal.
   • 2005, Tony Magistrale, Abject Terrors: Surveying the Modern and Postmodern Horror Film:

     Like the deathless vampire who must repeat its stalk-and-kill cycle in order to satisfy a recurring blood hunger, the earliest film horrors cannibalized its literary ancestry again and again.

2. (of a work of art, literature, etc.) Guaranteed not to be lost or forgotten due to its importance or conspicuous excellence.

   Her novels are filled with unforgettable characters and deathless prose.

   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     "We cannot do less than call it Ixodes Maloni. The very small inconvenience of being bitten, my young friend, cannot, I am sure, weigh with you as against the glorious privilege of having your name inscribed in the deathless roll of zoology."

   • 2000, Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 516:

     Finally, one voice in England proclaimed him a deathless dramatist and portrayer of character (Morgann) (<422).

Derived terms

• deathlessly
• deathlessness

 

Translations

immortal

• Finnish: kuolematon (fi)
• Greek: αθάνατος (el) m (athánatos)

  Ancient: ἀθάνατος (athánatos), (Poetic) ἄμβροτος (ámbrotos)

• Irish: neamhbhásmhar
• Manx: neuvarvaanagh
• Romanian: nemuritor (ro) m or n
• Sanskrit: अमृत (sa) (amṛta)

work of art or literature

• Finnish: kuolematon (fi)
• Greek: αθάνατος (el) m (athánatos)
• Irish: buanseasmhach