Word Meanings - PERPETUAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Neverceasing; continuing forever or for an unlimited time; unfailing; everlasting; continuous. Unto the kingdom of perpetual night. Shak. Perpetual feast of nectared sweets. Milton. Circle of perpetual apparition, or occultation. See under Circle.

Additional info about word: PERPETUAL

Neverceasing; continuing forever or for an unlimited time; unfailing; everlasting; continuous. Unto the kingdom of perpetual night. Shak. Perpetual feast of nectared sweets. Milton. Circle of perpetual apparition, or occultation. See under Circle. -- Perpetual calendar, a calendar so devised that it may be adjusted for any month or year. -- Perpetual curacy , a curacy in which all the tithes are appropriated, and no vicarage is endowed. Blackstone. -- Perpetual motion. See under Motion. -- Perpetual screw. See Endless screw, under Screw. Syn. -- Continual; unceasing; endless; everlasting; incessant; constant; eternal. See Constant. (more info) perpetualis, fr. perpetuus continuing throughout, continuous, fr.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PERPETUAL)

• Constant
• Uniform
• regular
• invariable
• perpetual
• continuous
• firm
• fixed
• steady
• immutable
• faithful
• true
• trustworthy
• Endless
• Interminable
• illimitable
• unceasing
• boundless
• deathless
• imperishable
• everlasting
• eternal
• infinite
• Eternal
• Infinite
• endless
• never-dying
• ceaseless
• everliving
• undying
• Habitual
• Regular
• ordinary
• customary
• usual
• familiar
• accustomed
• wonted
• Incessant
• Continual
• uninterrupted
• unintermittent

Related words: (words related to PERPETUAL)

• FAMILIARLY
  In a familiar manner.
• BOUNDLESS
  Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited. "The boundless sky." Bryant. "The boundless ocean." Dryden. "Boundless rapacity." "Boundless prospect of gain." Macaulay. Syn. -- Unlimited; unconfined; immeasurable; illimitable; infinite.
• EVERLASTINGLY
  In an everlasting manner.
• ACCUSTOMARILY
  Customarily.
• REGULARITY
  The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.
• ACCUSTOMEDNESS
  Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce.
• UNIFORMISM
  The doctrine of uniformity in the geological history of the earth; -- in part equivalent to uniformitarianism, but also used, more broadly, as opposed to catastrophism.
• ETERNALIST
  One who holds the existence of matter to be from eternity. T. Burnet.
• UNIFORMAL
  Uniform. Herrick.
• WONTED
  Accustomed; customary; usual. Again his wonted weapon proved. Spenser. Like an old piece of furniture left alone in its wonted corner. Sir W. Scott. She was wonted to the place, and would not remove. L'Estrange.
• EVERLASTINGNESS
  The state of being everlasting; endless duration; indefinite duration.
• UNIFORMLY
  In a uniform manner; without variation or diversity; by a regular, constant, or common ratio of change; with even tenor; as, a temper uniformly mild. To vary uniformly , to vary with the ratio of the corresponding increments constant; -- said of
• REGULARIA
  A division of Echini which includes the circular, or regular, sea urchins.
• EVERLASTING
  1. Lasting or enduring forever; exsisting or continuing without end; immoral; eternal. "The Everlasting God." Gen. xx1. 33. 2. Continuing indefinitely, or during a long period; perpetual; sometimes used, colloquially, as a strong intensive; as,
• CEASELESS
  Without intermission or end.
• CONSTANTIA
  A superior wine, white and red, from Constantia, in Cape Colony.
• FIXTURE
  Anything of an accessory character annexed to houses and lands, so as to constitute a part of them. This term is, however, quite frequently used in the peculiar sense of personal chattels annexed to lands and tenements, but removable by the person
• INTERMINABLENESS
  The state of being endless.
• CUSTOMARY
  A book containing laws and usages, or customs; as, the Customary of the Normans. Cowell.
• ORDINARY
  1. According to established order; methodical; settled; regular. "The ordinary forms of law." Addison. 2. Common; customary; usual. Shak. Method is not less reguisite in ordinary conversation that in writing. Addison. 3. Of common rank, quality,
• UNWONTED
  1. Not wonted; unaccustomed; unused; not made familiar by practice; as, a child unwonted to strangers. Milton. 2. Uncommon; unusual; infrequent; rare; as, unwonted changes. "Unwonted lights." Byron. -- Un*wont"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*wont"ed*ness, n.
• INFINITESIMAL
  Infinitely or indefinitely small; less than any assignable quantity or value; very small. Infinitesimal calculus, the different and the integral calculus, when developed according to the method used by Leibnitz, who regarded the increments given
• REFIX
  To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller.
• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
• AFFIX
  figere to fasten: cf. OE. affichen, F. afficher, ultimately fr. L. 1. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to
• DEFIX
  To fix; to fasten; to establish. "To defix their princely seat . . . in that extreme province." Hakluyt.
• AFFIXION
  Affixture. T. Adams.
• MESOCUNEIFORM; MESOCUNIFORM
  One of the bones of the tarsus. See 2d Cuneiform.
• ENTOCUNEIFORM; ENTOCUNIFORM
  One of the bones of the tarsus. See Cuneiform.