imperishable
Adjective
Not perishable; not subject to decay; enduring permanently.
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an imperishable monument
The child was to be a prophet, unrivalled among men, and the parent of an imperishable race.
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Sir Philip Sidney, soldier, courtier, statesman and poet, was born at Penshurst in 1554. He won imperishable fame 32 years later at the Battle of Zutphen in Holland when, mortally wounded, he refused a drink of water and passed his flask to a wounded soldier, with the words: 'Thy necessity is yet greater than mine.'
Noun
something that does not perish, or keeps for a long time
Usage- in-plural
Adjective
not perishable
- Antonyms
lasting a long time
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an abiding belief
imperishable truths
Word forms
imperishables