everlasting

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I - noun

any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color
• Syn:
everlasting flower
• Hypernyms:
composite, composite plant
• Hyponyms:
pink-and-white everlasting, pink paper daisy, Acroclinium roseum, pearly everlasting, cottonweed,
Anaphalis margaritacea, cudweed, strawflower, golden everlasting, yellow paper daisy, Helichrysum bracteatum,
cascade everlasting, Ozothamnus secundiflorus, Helichrysum secundiflorum, Swan River everlasting, rhodanthe, Rhodanthe manglesii,
Helipterum manglesii, immortelle, Xeranthemum annuum
• Member Holonyms:
Compositae, family Compositae, Asteraceae, family Asteraceae, aster family

II - adjective

1. continuing forever or indefinitely (Freq. 1)
- the ageless themes of love and revenge
- eternal truths
- life everlasting
- hell's perpetual fires
- the unending bliss of heaven
• Syn:
ageless, aeonian, eonian, eternal, perpetual,
unending, unceasing
• Similar to:
permanent, lasting
• Derivationally related forms:
perpetuity (for: perpetual), everlastingness, eternity (for: eternal), eon (for: eonian), agelessness (for: ageless)
2. without qualification;
used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
- an arrant fool
- a complete coward
- a consummate fool
- a double-dyed villain
- gross negligence
- a perfect idiot
- pure folly
- what a sodding mess
- stark staring mad
- a thoroughgoing villain
- utter nonsense
- the unadulterated truth
• Syn:
arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, gross,
perfect, pure, sodding, stark, staring, thoroughgoing,
utter, unadulterated
• Similar to:
unmitigated

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  ageless, aeonian, eonian, eternal, perpetual, unending, unceasing, everlasting flower