eternal

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English eternal, from Old French eternal, from Late Latin aeternālis, from Latin aeternus (“eternal”), from aevum (“age”).

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nəl
  • Hyphenation: eter‧nal

Adjective

eternal (not comparable)

  1. Lasting forever; unending.
    • 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding:
      But here again it is another question, quite different from our having an idea of eternity, to know whether there were any real being, whose duration has been eternal.
    • 1700 [c. 1387–1400], John, transl. Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite”, in Fables, Ancient and Modern, translation of The Knight's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer:
      Thy smoking altar shall be fat with food / Of incense and the grateful steam of blood; / Burnt-offerings morn and evening shall be thine, / And fires eternal in thy temple shine.
    • 2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club‎[1]:
      In a bid to understand the eternal mystery that is woman, Bart goes to the least qualified possible source for advice and counsel: his father, who remarkably seems to have made it to his mid-30s without quite figuring out much of anything.
    Synonyms: agelong, endless, everlasting, permanent, sempiternal, unending; see also Thesaurus:eternal
    Antonyms: ephemeral, momentary, transient; see also Thesaurus:ephemeral
  2. (philosophy) existing outside time; as opposed to sempiternal, existing within time but everlastingly
    Synonyms: timeless, atemporal; see also Thesaurus:timeless
  3. (dated) Exceedingly great or bad; used as an intensifier.
    some eternal villain
    Synonym: awful

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

eternal (plural eternals)

  1. One who lives forever; an immortal.
    • 2012, D. E. Phoenix, Revelations of the Fallen: The Blasphemy of Astrial Belthromoto
      Yes, I want that raw power that is only offered to the eternals or creators

Anagrams

Catalan

Adjective

eternal m or f (masculine and feminine plural eternals)

  1. eternal

Synonyms

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French eternal, eternel, from Latin aeternālis; equivalent to eterne +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛːtɛrˈnaːl/, /ɛːˈtɛrnal/, /ɛːtɛrˈnɛːl/

Adjective

eternal

  1. Eternal, permanent; having existed (and existing) forever.
  2. Endless, unending; lasting forever.
  3. (rare) Long-lasting; non-ephemeral.

Synonyms

Descendants

  • English: eternal, tarnal
  • Scots: eternal

References

Spanish

Adjective

eternal m or f (masculine and feminine plural eternales)

  1. eternal

Synonyms

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