lasting
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
lasting
adj 1: continuing or enduring without marked change in status or
condition or place; "permanent secretary to the
president"; "permanent address"; "literature of permanent
value" [syn: {permanent}, {lasting}] [ant: {impermanent},
{temporary}]
2: existing for a long time; "hopes for a durable peace"; "a
long-lasting friendship" [syn: {durable}, {lasting}, {long-
lasting}, {long-lived}]
3: retained; not shed; "persistent leaves remain attached past
maturity"; "the persistent gills of fishes" [syn:
{persistent}, {lasting}] [ant: {caducous}, {shed}]
4: lasting a long time without change; "a lasting relationship"
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Lasting \Last"ing\, a.
Existing or continuing a long while; enduring; as, a lasting
good or evil; a lasting color.
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Syn: Durable; permanent; undecaying; perpetual; unending.
Usage: {Lasting}, {Permanent}, {Durable}. Lasting commonly
means merely continuing in existence; permanent
carries the idea of continuing in the same state,
position, or course; durable means lasting in spite of
agencies which tend to destroy.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Last \Last\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lasted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Lasting}.] [OE. lasten, As. l[ae]stan to perform, execute,
follow, last, continue, fr. l[=a]st, l[=ae]st, trace,
footstep, course; akin to G. leisten to perform, Goth.
laistjan to follow. See {Last} mold of the foot.]
1. To continue in time; to endure; to remain in existence.
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[I] proffered me to be slave in all that she me
would ordain while my life lasted. --Testament of
Love.
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2. To endure use, or continue in existence, without
impairment or exhaustion; as, this cloth lasts better than
that; the fuel will last through the winter.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
221 Moby Thesaurus words for "lasting":
abiding, adamantine, age-long, aged, alive, ancient, antique,
assiduous, bulky, cartilaginous, changeless, chewy, chronic,
chronological, cohesive, constant, continual, continuing,
continuous, coriaceous, dense, diligent, diuturnal, dogged,
drawn-out, durable, durational, durative, eidetic, endless,
enduring, eternal, evergreen, everlasting, extended, faithful,
fibrous, firm, fixed, fresh, frozen, green, gristly, hard, hardy,
heavy, immobile, immutable, inalterable, incessant, incommutable,
inconvertible, indefatigable, indefeasible, indelible,
indissoluble, indomitable, industrious, inert, insistent,
insusceptible of change, intact, interminable, intransient,
intransmutable, invariable, inveterate, invincible, inviolate,
irretrievable, irreversible, irrevocable, kept in remembrance,
languishing, leatherlike, leathery, lengthened, lingering, long,
long-continuing, long-drawn, long-drawn-out, long-lasting,
long-lived, long-pending, long-standing, long-term, long-winded,
longeval, longevous, loyal, macrobiotic, marathon, massive,
never-tiring, noble, nonreturnable, nonreversible, obstinate,
of long duration, of long standing, old, overlong, patient,
patient as Job, perdurable, perduring, perennial, permanent,
perpetual, perseverant, persevering, persistent, persisting,
pertinacious, plodding, plugging, preoccupied, prolonged,
protracted, quiescent, rapt, recalled, recollected, relentless,
remaining, remembered, resistant, resolute, retained, reverseless,
rigid, ropy, rugged, sedulous, sempervirent, sempiternal, sinewy,
single-minded, sleepless, slogging, solid, sound, spun-out, stable,
static, stationary, staying, steadfast, steady, stiff, stout,
stretched-out, stringy, strong, stubborn, sturdy, sustained,
temporal, tenacious, tireless, torpid, tough, tough as leather,
unabating, unalterable, unalterative, unaltered, unceasing,
unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unchecked, unconquerable,
undaunted, undeflectable, undestroyed, undeviating, undiscouraged,
undrooping, undying, unfading, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging,
unflinching, unforgotten, unintermitting, uninterrupted,
unmodifiable, unnodding, unrelaxing, unrelenting, unremitting,
unrestorable, unreturnable, unshifting, unsleeping, unsusceptible,
unswerving, untiring, unvariable, unvaried, unvarying, unwavering,
unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, unyielding, utterly attentive,
vigorous, viscid, vital, vivid, weariless, well-built,
well-constructed, well-founded, well-grounded, well-made, wiry
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