What does perpetual mean?
Definitions for perpetual
pərˈpɛtʃ u əlper·pet·u·al
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Princeton's WordNet
ageless, aeonian, eonian, eternal, everlasting, perpetual, unending, unceasingadjective
continuing forever or indefinitely
"the ageless themes of love and revenge"; "eternal truths"; "life everlasting"; "hell's perpetual fires"; "the unending bliss of heaven"
ceaseless, constant, incessant, never-ending, perpetual, unceasing, unremittingadjective
uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing
"the ceaseless thunder of surf"; "in constant pain"; "night and day we live with the incessant noise of the city"; "the never-ending search for happiness"; "the perpetual struggle to maintain standards in a democracy"; "man's unceasing warfare with drought and isolation"; "unremitting demands of hunger"
Wiktionary
perpetualadjective
Lasting forever, or for an indefinitely long time
perpetualadjective
Set up to be in effect or have tenure for an unlimited duration
perpetualadjective
Continuing uninterrupted
perpetualadjective
Flowering throughout the growing season
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Perpetualadjective
Etymology: perpetuel, Fr. perpetuus, Latin.
Mine is a love, which must perpetual be,
If you can be so just as I am true. Dryden.Within those banks rivers now
Stream, and perpetual draw their humid train. John Milton.By the muscular motion and perpetual flux of the liquids, a great part of them is thrown out of the body. Arbuthnot.
A perpetual screw hath the motion of a wheel and the force of a screw, being both infinite. John Wilkins, Math. Magick.
ChatGPT
perpetual
Perpetual is an adjective that describes something as never ending, everlasting, or continual. It refers to something that is infinite or indefinitely long in duration, often occurring repeatedly or constantly. The term can be used in various contexts, such as a perpetual motion machine in physics, which operates indefinitely without an energy source, or a perpetual calendar, which covers all possible arrangements of dates.
Webster Dictionary
Perpetualadjective
neverceasing; continuing forever or for an unlimited time; unfailing; everlasting; continuous
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Perpetual
per-pet′ū-al, adj. never ceasing: everlasting: not temporary.—adv. Perpet′ually.—Perpetual curate, a curate of a parish where there was neither rector nor vicar, the tithes being in the hands of a layman—abolished in 1868, every incumbent not a rector now being a vicar; Perpetual motion, motion of a machine arising from forces within itself, constantly kept up without any force from without; Perpetual screw, an endless screw. [Fr. perpétuel—L. perpetuus, continuous.]
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of perpetual in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of perpetual in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of perpetual in a Sentence
Tens of thousands of illegal aliens enter Texas every day. Our communities along the border are overrun with criminal aliens. The bodies of illegal aliens abandoned by their smugglers are found every week throughout South Texas, threats and violent actions of cartels have caused landowners and homeowners to abandon the property they worked all of their lives for. Texans along the border live in perpetual crisis as a result of the Administration’s open border policy.
Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever-increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.
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- perpetu, perpetualCatalan, Valencian
- vedvarendeDanish
- ewigGerman
- αέναος, πολυετής, παντοτινόςGreek
- eterneEsperanto
- perpetuoSpanish
- päättymätön, jatkuva, ikuinenFinnish
- perpétuelFrench
- תמידיHebrew
- लगातारHindi
- orokosHungarian
- abadiIndonesian
- perpetuoItalian
- perpetuumLatin
- eeuwig, eeuwigdurendDutch
- daimiTurkish
- 永動的Chinese
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