lasting — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Persisting for an extended period of time.

   Synonyms

   abidingdurable

   Examples

   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.

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   hasty wroth, and heedlesse hazardry Doe breede repentaunce late, and lasting infamy.

   Look ye, Marriage is a lasting thing—if it were for six Months only, I might venture upon thee—but for all days of my Life—mercy upon me […]

   I knew that nought was lasting, but now even Change grows too changeable, without being new:

   Then his son bought a carven coffin hewn from a great log of fragrant wood which is used to bury the dead in and for nothing else because that wood is as lasting as iron, and more lasting than human bones, and Wang Lung was comforted.

   Though they obviously realized that these episodes were part of something wonderful and important and lasting, the writers and producers couldn’t have imagined that 20 years later “Treehouse Of Horror” wouldn’t just survive; it’d thrive as one of the most talked-about and watched episodes of every season of The Simpsons.

2. Persisting forever.

   Usage

   • Obsolete

   Synonyms

   eternaleverlasting

   Examples

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   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.

Noun

1. In full lasting cloth: a durable, plain woven fabric formerly used for making clothes and for the uppers of women's shoes.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Historical
   • Uncountable

   Synonyms

   everlasting

2. The act or process of shaping footwear on a last.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

3. The action or state of persisting; the time during which something or someone persists.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Obsolete
   • Uncountable

   Synonyms

   continuancedurationendurance

   Examples

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   1598, I. D. (possibly John Dee) (translator), Aristotles Politiques, or Discourses of Gouernment, London: Adam Islip, Chapter 12, p. 334, But all things that haue beginning, must come to an end, and whatsoeuer groweth, must likewise deminish, being subiect to corruption and change, according to the time appointed vnto it by the course of Nature, as is seene by experience in plants, and in wights, which haue their ages and lastings certaine and determined.

   […] 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 […]

Adjective

1. continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place

   Synonyms

   permanent

   Examples

   permanent secretary to the president

   permanent address

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   literature of permanent value

2. existing for a long time

   Synonyms

   durablelong-lastinglong-lived

   Examples

   hopes for a durable peace

   a long-lasting friendship

3. retained; not shed

   Synonyms

   persistent

   Examples

   persistent leaves remain attached past maturity

   the persistent gills of fishes

4. lasting a long time without change

   Examples

   a lasting relationship