lasting
adjDefinitions
Persisting for an extended period of time.
- After World War I it was hoped that a lasting peace had been achieved. It hadn’t.
- I was taken to the theatre for the first time when I was six years old, and the experience made a lasting impression on me.
- hasty wroth, and heedlesse hazardry Doe breede repentaunce late, and lasting infamy.
Persisting forever.
- I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death, And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings His soul and body to their lasting rest.
- Things that are first must give place, but things that are last, are lasting.
present participle and gerund of last
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In full lasting cloth
In full lasting cloth: a durable, plain woven fabric formerly used for making clothes and for the uppers of women's shoes.
The act or process of shaping footwear on a last.
The action or state of persisting
The action or state of persisting; the time during which something or someone persists.
- […] it may be some kinde of Prophecy, of the continuance, and lasting of these Letters, that having been scattered, more then Sibyls leaves, I cannot say into parts, but corners of the World, they have recollected and united themselves […]
- But concerning the several degrees of lasting, wherewith Ideas are imprinted on the Memory, we may observe […]
The neighborhood
- synonymabiding
- synonymchronic
- synonymcontinuate
- synonymdiuturnal
- synonymdurable
- synonymdurative
- synonymendurable
- synonymenduring
- synonymextending
- synonymhard-wearing
- synonymlasting
- synonymlong-drawn-out
- antonymconsumable
- antonymdureless
- antonymephemeral
- antonymfleeting
- antonymnondurable
- antonymperishable
- antonymshort-lived
- antonymtransient
- antonymtransitory
- antonymundurable
- antonymunlasting
- neighborindurable
- neighborlastingly
- neighborlastingness
- neighbortolerable
- neighborIndefinite period:
- neighborendless
- neighboreternal
- neighboreverlasting
- neighbornever-ending
- neighborpermanent
- neighborperpetual
- neighborintransient
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at lasting. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at lasting. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at lasting
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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