adjective. Being without beginning or end.

adjective. undefined

adjective. Continuing without interruption; perpetual: synonym: continual.

adjective. Seemingly endless; interminable.

noun. Something timeless, uninterrupted, or endless.

noun. God. Used with the.

Existing without beginning or end of existence; existing throughout all time.

Having a beginning but no end of existence or duration; everlasting; endless; imperishable: as, eternal fame.

In a special metaphysical use, existing outside of all relations of time; independent of all time-conditions; not temporal.

By hyperbole, having no recognized or perceived end of existence; indefinite in duration; perpetual; ceaseless; continued without intermission.

“married to immortal verse,”

It is sometimes applied to God (1 Tim. i. 17). Perpetual points to the future, and applies especially to that which is established: as, a perpetual covenant, desolation, feud. It is freely applied to anything that lasts indefinitely. All the four words are often used by hyperbole for that which has long duration. See incessant.

noun. That which is everlasting.

noun. Eternity.

noun. One of the appellations of God.

noun. That which is endless and immortal.

adjective. Without beginning or end of existence; always existing.

adjective. Without end of existence or duration; everlasting; endless; immortal.

adjective. Continued without intermission; perpetual; ceaseless; constant.

adjective. Existing at all times without change; immutable.

adjective. Exceedingly great or bad; -- used as a strong intensive.

adjective. an appellation of Rome.

adjective. Lasting forever; unending.

adjective. existing outside time; as opposed to sempiternal, existing within time but everlastingly

adjective. continuing forever or indefinitely

adjective. tiresomely long; seemingly without end

"The august destiny of his own eternal city [observe -- '_eternal_,' not in virtue of history, but of prophecy, not upon the retrospect and the analogies of any possible experience, but by the necessity of an aboriginal doom], a city that was to be the centre of an empire whose circumference is everywhere, did not depend for any part of its majesty upon the meanness of its enemies; on the contrary, in the very grandeur of those enemies lay, by a rebound of the feelings inevitable to a Roman mind, the paramount grandeur of that awful Republic which had swallowed them all up."

ephemeral  sempiternal  

constant  endless  eternal generation  the eternal  

lasting  long  permanent  

eternal life  eternal recurrence  eternal return  

colonel  diurnal  external  fraternal  infernal  

divine  endless  everlasting  infinite  spiritual  

ageless  all-comprehensive  all-inclusive  all-knowing  all-powerful