lasting en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈlæstɪŋ/ (General-American)
- /ˈleəstɪŋ/ æ-raising
- /ˈlɑːstɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈlastɪn/ (Northern-England)
- /ˈlastɪŋ/ (Northern-England)
Meanings
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Persisting for an extended period of time.
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.
1931, Pearl S. Buck, chapter 34, in The Good Earth, New York: Modern Library, published 1944, page 311:After World War I it was hoped that a lasting peace had been achieved. It hadn’t.
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.
2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):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.
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 […]
1706, Susanna Centlivre, Love at a Venture, London: John Chantry, act V, page 63:hasty wroth, and heedlesse hazardry Doe breede repentaunce late, and lasting infamy.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 249:I knew that nought was lasting, but now even Change grows too changeable, without being new:
1823 August 29, [Lord Byron], Don Juan. Cantos IX.—X.—and XI., London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John Hunt, […], →OCLC, canto XI, (please specify the stanza number):
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(obsolete) Persisting forever.
Things that are first must give place, but things that are last, are lasting.
1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC, page 24: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.
c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene vii]:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more lasting | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most lasting | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Antonyms
transient · short-lived · dureless · fleeting · ephemeral · nondurable · unlasting · consumable · undurable · transitory · perishable
Deriveds
long-lasting · unlasting · lastingly · lastingness
Hyponyms
monthslong · dayslong · Indefinite period: · Specific period: · octennial · minuteslong · seasonlong · centennial · triduan · quindecennial · sextennial · careerlong · livelong · plurennial · Not deteriorating: · unpaling · decadeslong · yearslong · indestructible · decennial · pluriennial · decennal · undying · trinoctial · everlasting · novennial · annual · lifelong · permanent · quadrennial · Non-specific period; non-specific reference: · Non-specific period; specific reference: · diary · vicennial · unwasting · longeval · unbreakable · biennial · septennial · never-ending · quatridual · quinquennial · endless · hebdomadal · undestroyable · all-night · subdecadal · perennial · imperishable · eternal · springlong · Having a long lifespan: · menstrual · intransient · weekslong · perpetual · ultrapermanent · triennial · unruinable · undecaying · unwreckable · nightlong · decennary · unending · Not subject to decay: · hourslong · unfading · weeklong · nychthemeral · decennalian · indissoluble · all-day
Relateds
lastingness · indurable · lastingly · tolerable
Synonyms
abiding · endless · endurable · everlasting · perennial · prolonged · eternal · long-lived · durable · indesinent · persistent · celestial · timeless · durable · lasting · undying · never-ending · everduring · unending · durative · amaranthine · eternal · everlasting · chronic · sempiternal · enduring · diuturnal · long-drawn-out · long-lasting · evergreen · longevitous · permanent · extending · perpetual · perdurable · ageful · heavenly · longsome · undeadly · continuate · agelong · perpetuate · eterne · hard-wearing · forever · enduring · eviternal · abiding · lasting · protracted · longevous · imperishable · standing · persistent
Translations (26)
la aeternus (persisting for an extended period of time) · gd buan (persisting for an extended period of time) · fi pysyvä (persisting for an extended period of time) · eo daŭra (persisting for an extended period of time) · mi ukuiuki (persisting for an extended period of time) · tr süregelen (persisting for an extended period of time) · fr permanent (persisting for an extended period of time) · bg издръжлив (persisting for an extended period of time) · txb eṃṣketstse (persisting for an extended period of time) · fr permanente (persisting for an extended period of time) · mi whakauka (persisting for an extended period of time) · tr kalıcı (persisting for an extended period of time) · nb varig (persisting for an extended period of time) · es duradero (persisting for an extended period of time) · pt duradouro (persisting for an extended period of time) · pdt bestendich (persisting for an extended period of time) · gd seasmhach (persisting for an extended period of time) · mi ukauka (persisting for an extended period of time) · la dūrābilis (persisting for an extended period of time) · it permanente (persisting for an extended period of time) · gd maireannach (persisting for an extended period of time) · it duraturo (persisting for an extended period of time) · bg траен (persisting for an extended period of time) · fi kestävä (persisting for an extended period of time) · tr sürekli (persisting for an extended period of time) · it durevole (persisting for an extended period of time)