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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unsurpassed and permanent |
| Synonyms: | best, champion, enduring, everlasting, perpetual |
| Main Entry: | forever |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | not ceasing, continually |
| Synonyms: | all the time, constantly, endlessly, eternally, everlastingly, incessantly, interminably, perpetually, regularly, unendingly, unremittingly |
| Antonyms: | ceasing, ending, never |
| Main Entry: | peerless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having no equal; superior |
| Synonyms: | aces, all-time, alone, best, beyond compare, champion, excellent, faultless, gilt-edge, greatest, incomparable, matchless, most, nonpareil*, only, outstanding, perfect, second to none, solid-gold, super, superlative, supreme, tops, unequaled, unexampled, unique, unmatched, unparagoned, unparalleled, unrivaled, unsurpassed, world class |
| Antonyms: | imperfect, inferior, lowly, mediocre, secondary, subordinate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | superlative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | excellent, first-class |
| Synonyms: | A-1, accomplished, all-time, best, capital, consummate, crack, effusive, exaggerated, excessive, extreme, finished, gilt-edge, greatest, highest, hundred-proof, inflated, magnificent, matchless, of highest order, optimum, outstanding, peerless, standout, superb, supreme, surpassing, tops, transcendent, unexcelled, unparalleled, unrivaled, unsurpassed, winning, world-class |
| Notes: | positive is the ordinary form of a word, with comparative conveying the sense of greater intensity of the adjective and superlative reflecting the greatest intensity of the adjective |
| Antonyms: | low, lowest, poor, second-class |
| Main Entry: | throughout |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | during the whole of |
| Synonyms: | all over, all the time, all through, around, at full length, completely, during, every bit, everyplace, everywhere, far and near, far and wide, for the duration, from beginning to end, from end to end, from one end to the other, from start to finish, from the start, from the word go, high and low, in all respects, in every place, in everything, inside and out, on all accounts, over, overall, right through, round, the whole time, through the whole of, to the end, up and down |
| Notes: | through is used in reference to a movement or passage that proceeds linearly; throughout to a movement or passage that proceeds spatially |
| Main Entry: | unparalleled |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | superlative |
| Synonyms: | all-time, alone, beyond compare, champ, champion, consummate, exceptional, greatest, incomparable, matchless, most, nonpareil, only, peerless, rare, single, singular, solid gold, ten, tops, unequaled, unique, unmatched, unprecedented, unrivaled, unsurpassed, winner, without equal, world-class |
| Antonyms: | inferior, lower, second-rate, surpassable |
| Main Entry: | night and day |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | continually |
| Synonyms: | all the time, at all hours, perpetually, round the clock |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Concept: | [Endless duration] Perpetuity. |
| Category: | 1. ABSOLUTE TIME |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
perpetuity, eternity, everness, aye, sempiternity, immortality, athanasia; interminability, agelessness, everlastingness; perpetuation; continued existence, uninterrupted existence; perennity; permanence (durability).
-verbs
last forever, endure forever, go on forever; have no end., eternize, perpetuate.
-adjectives
perpetual, eternal; everduring, everlasting, everliving, everflowing; continual, sempiternal; coeternal; endless, unending; ceaseless, incessant, uninterrupted, indesinent, unceasing; endless, unending, interminable, having no end; unfading, evergreen, amaranthine; neverending, never-dying, never-fading; deathless, immortal, undying, imperishable.
-adverbs
perpetually; always, ever, evermore, aye; forever, for aye, till the end of the universe, forevermore, forever and a day, forever and ever; in all ages, from age to age; without end; world without end, time without end; in secula seculorum; to the end of time, to the crack of doom, to the "last syllable of recorded time" [Macbeth]; till doomsday; constantly (very frequently).
-phrases
esto perpetuum; labitur et labetur in omne volubilis oevum [Horace]; "but thou shall flourish in immortal youth" [Addison]; "Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought" [Addison]; "her immortal part with angels lives" [Romeo & Juliet]; ohne Rast [Goethe's motto "without rest" (German)];
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| Antonyms: | transience |
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