Dictionary

perdurable en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /pə(ɹ)ˈdʊəɹəbəl/ (US)
• /pə(ɹ)ˈdjʊəɹəbəl/ (UK)
• /pə(ɹ)ˈdʒʊəɹəbəl/ (UK)
• /pə(ɹ)ˈdʒɔːɹəbəl/ (UK)

Etymology

From Middle English perdurable, from Old French pardurable, from Medieval Latin perdūrābilis, from Latin perdurāre (“to endure”), from per- (“throughout”) + durare (“to last”).

Meanings

1. Very durable; long-lasting.
   • There is one quality which unites all great and perdurable writers, you don't NEED schools and colleges to keep 'em alive. 1937, Ezra Pound, ABC Of Reading:
   • Ere now marmoreal floods had spread their couch / Of perdurable snow, or granite wrought / Its skyward impulse from earth's hearth of fire / Up to insanest heights. 1848, Philip James Bailey, “Proëm”, in Festus: A Poem, 3rd edition, London: William Pickering, →OCLC, page vii:
   • O perdurable shame! Let's stab our selues. 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
   • The Duke had given her already a horde of fine gifts; but these, he had said, were nothing—trash in comparison with the gift that was to ensure for her a perdurable felicity. 1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, published 1912, →OCLC:
   • In Paradyce, that place of pleaſure perdurable / The progeny of parrottis, were fayre and fauorable c. 1521, John Skelton, Speke Parott:
   • Together, our studies show that the perception of moral decline is pervasive, perdurable, unfounded and easily produced. 2023, Mastroianni, Adam M., Gilbert, Daniel T, “The illusion of moral decline”, in Nature, 618 782-789 (2023):

Forms

Deriveds

perdurableness

Relateds

perdurably · perdurability

Synonyms

hard-wearing · continuate · longsome · prolonged · longevous · diuturnal · longevitous · long-lasting · abiding · standing · persistent · prolonged · extending · protracted · durable · durative · enduring · lasting · long-drawn-out · endurable · diuturnal · long-lived · chronic · perdurable