Advertisement

Advertisement

eternal

Definition for eternal

Discover More

Example Sentences

Motivated by eternal salvation, parents and leaders made sure the children learned to read.

To us mayfly-humans, they may as well be eternal and unchanging.

Yet even as the glow from the contests and bikinis faded, their pictures still command attention today, an exuberance of sex and life imbued with the permanence of an eternal flame.

From Ozy

In another, he warns that the “price of freedom is eternal vigilance,” according to a recording from the Detroit News.

Hosts are, by their nature, “eternal beginners” — each bidder effectively starts from scratch on a megaproject where there is, in that city, almost no relevant institutional memory for running one.

From Ozy

The speaker conjures up centuries of collective sagacity, aligning oneself with an eternal, inarguable good.

He stated—quite rightly—that animals are never mentioned in connection with eternal life in the Bible.

In 2008 then Pope Benedict XVI stated quite pointedly that animals are “not called to the eternal life.”

What had seemed immutable and eternal (“With the Soviet Union forever”) turned out to be a fleeting episode.

It may also have left them somewhat untethered, drifting in between their own lives and the eternal mysteries.

Was he really condemned to an eternal solitude because of the girl who had died so many years ago?

Under all man's dreams of eternal gods and eternal heavens lies man's passion for the eternal feminine.

Goodness only knew what a falchion was, but there was the Griffin, and his history was an improvement upon the eternal Cat.

And yet the demand has the clearest and strongest basis of natural and eternal justice, as any fair mind must confess.

Here again we have the landscape of Lorraine and the eternal and infinitely varied theme of rural labour.

Advertisement

Synonym of the Day

Which one is a synonym for laidback?Get the answer

Start each day with the Synonym of the Day in your inbox!

By clicking "Sign Up", you are accepting Dictionary.com Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policies.

On this page you'll find 115 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to eternal, such as: abiding, boundless, constant, continual, continued, and enduring.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement