Definitions for Perpetual
pərˈpɛtʃ u əlper·pet·u·al

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:1.8 / 4 votes

1. ageless, aeonian, eonian, eternal, everlasting, perpetual, unending, unceasingadjective

   continuing forever or indefinitely

   "the ageless themes of love and revenge"; "eternal truths"; "life everlasting"; "hell's perpetual fires"; "the unending bliss of heaven"

2. ceaseless, constant, incessant, never-ending, perpetual, unceasing, unremittingadjective

   uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing

   "the ceaseless thunder of surf"; "in constant pain"; "night and day we live with the incessant noise of the city"; "the never-ending search for happiness"; "the perpetual struggle to maintain standards in a democracy"; "man's unceasing warfare with drought and isolation"; "unremitting demands of hunger"

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. perpetualadjective

   Lasting forever, or for an indefinitely long time

2. perpetualadjective

   Set up to be in effect or have tenure for an unlimited duration

3. perpetualadjective

   Continuing uninterrupted

4. perpetualadjective

   Flowering throughout the growing season

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Perpetualadjective

   Etymology: perpetuel, Fr. perpetuus, Latin.

   1. Never ceasing; eternal with respect to futurity.

   Mine is a love, which must perpetual be,
   If you can be so just as I am true. Dryden.

   2. Continual; uninterrupted; perennial.

   Within those banks rivers now
   Stream, and perpetual draw their humid train. John Milton.

   By the muscular motion and perpetual flux of the liquids, a great part of them is thrown out of the body. Arbuthnot.

   3. Perpetual screw. A screw which acts against the teeth of a wheel, and continues its action without end.

   A perpetual screw hath the motion of a wheel and the force of a screw, being both infinite. John Wilkins, Math. Magick.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. perpetual

   Perpetual is an adjective that describes something as never ending, everlasting, or continual. It refers to something that is infinite or indefinitely long in duration, often occurring repeatedly or constantly. The term can be used in various contexts, such as a perpetual motion machine in physics, which operates indefinitely without an energy source, or a perpetual calendar, which covers all possible arrangements of dates.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. Perpetualadjective

   neverceasing; continuing forever or for an unlimited time; unfailing; everlasting; continuous

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Perpetual

   per-pet′ū-al, adj. never ceasing: everlasting: not temporary.—adv. Perpet′ually.—Perpetual curate, a curate of a parish where there was neither rector nor vicar, the tithes being in the hands of a layman—abolished in 1868, every incumbent not a rector now being a vicar; Perpetual motion, motion of a machine arising from forces within itself, constantly kept up without any force from without; Perpetual screw, an endless screw. [Fr. perpétuel—L. perpetuus, continuous.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Perpetual in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Perpetual in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Perpetual in a Sentence

1. George Dennison Prentice:

   What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

2. Joseph Addison:

   The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

3. Taylor Budowich:

   It seems like perpetual-failed-candidate Hillary Clinton’s basket of deplorables has run stale, not unlike herself, it’s pathetic, it’s divisive, and it is further cementing her legacy of cringe.

4. Michael Aron:

   The Yemeni cynics who criticize everything the other side does even if it is positive and who say the UN are naive seem to be saying the only solution is perpetual war in Yemen.

5. Barbara Lee:

   That resolution was passed days after 9/11. It was a 60 word resolution. It was not specific. It was a blank check. It set the stage for perpetual war.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Perpetual
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Perpetual
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Perpetual
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Perpetual
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Perpetual
7. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Perpetual