timelessadj.adv.n.

Brit.

/ˈtʌɪmlᵻs/, U.S.

/ˈtaɪmlᵻs/

Forms: see time n., int., and conj. and -less suffix.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: time n., -less suffix.

Etymology: < time n. + -less suffix.With sense A. 5 compare aorist n., indefinite adj. 3b, and later omnitemporal adj. 2.

A. adj.

a. Existing or operating outside of or without reference to time, (in early use) esp. eternal, as opposed to temporal; not subject to or bound by the passing of time.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [adjective] > in past and future duration or transcending time

everlasting1340

eternec1366

eternal1488

eterminablea1528

timeless1574

supertemporal1837

morrowless1844

dayless1848

supratemporal1860

a-temporal1862

dateless1894

transhistorical1909

1574 Certaine Select Prayers sig. Jii^v O most auncient light which shonest before all light in the hill of thy tymelesse eternitie.

a1628 F. Greville Treat. Humane Learning xcvi, in Certaine Wks. (1633) 41 Curious mystery, Of timelesse time.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 781 The reason why we cannot frame a Conception of such a Timeless Eternity.

1713 Indictment 29 Regicides ii. 55 Every Saint has what his heart can desire, it is a Sinless, Sorrowless, Temptationless, Oppressionless, Sickless, Timeless and Endless estate.

1819 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 5 323 There timeless, spaceless, dwells the Eternal One.

1906 D. W. Forrest Authority of Christ vi. i. 309 In speaking of the last day we are using a temporal expression for an unspeakable and timeless reality.

1943 Mind 52 343 The individual consciousness..does not and cannot regard itself as being literally timeless and extra-spatial.

1987 J. H. Alexander Reading Wordsworth Introd. 4 Much of Wordsworth's poetry seeks a repose, an extreme quietness, which approaches a timeless nirvana.

2001 Y. Berg Power of Kabbalah (2004) iii. 78 This is the realm that Plato wrote about—the timeless world of Ideas or Forms that exists ‘beyond’ the physical world of the five senses.

b. literary (chiefly poetic). Everlasting, eternal; spec. apparently suspended from time, evoking a sense of eternity.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [adjective]

echec825

echelichc825

endlessc888

lastinga1225

everlastingc1225

perdurablec1275

perpetuala1325

unendeda1325

incorruptiblea1340

ay-lastingc1340

inlastingc1340

eternec1366

interminablec1374

unstanchablec1374

ever-duringa1382

eternalc1386

sempitern1390

never-failinga1400

sempiternal14..

ever-being?a1425

ever-durable?a1425

immarcescible?a1475

perennal?c1500

deathless1547

everlastable1548

incessant1557

unperishing1561

undeterminable1581

evera1586

unendlya1586

inexterminable1592

never-ending?1592

aeviternal1596

dateless1597

undecaying1599

entombless1601

perishless1605

ageless1609

continual1610

perpetuous1612

imperible1614

ne'er-endinga1616

out-date1623

undated1624

perennious1628

immortal1630

imperishable1648

birthless1651

fadeless1652

sempiternous1653

evergreen1655

intemporal1656

indefectible1659

inconclusible1660

unending1661

aeonian1664

unfading1665

sempervirent1668

amaranthal1674

ne'er-dying1693

perennial1717

timeless1742

indefeatablea1754

amaranthine1782

aeonial1800

unterminating1821

unevanescent1827

ay1845

forever1879

sempervirid1909

1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Second 17 When Worlds..Headlong rush To timeless Night, and Chaos, whence they rose.

1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems ci. 10 Yea, take, brother, a long Ave, a timeless adieu.

1938 L. Hughes in Fight for Peace & Democracy July 14 In the timeless midnight of the Fascist guns, Madrid cries No!

1955 W. H. Auden Shield of Achilles ii. 43 In timeless fermatas of awe and delight.

1976 E. Lowbury Poetry & Paradox 15 We sat silent for a timeless hour.

1983 R. S. Thomas in P. Wakefield & F. Perring Britain 96 For a timeless moment the birds thronged me.

c. Unaffected by the passage of time or changes in fashion; perpetually relevant, valuable, appealing, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > duration > [adjective] > long-lasting or enduring > of a fluctuation or trend

timeless1889

secular1895

the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [adjective] > that serves or is valid for all time

perpetuala1325

timeless1889

1889 Public Opinion 14 Dec. 252/2 The author shows the timeless appeal of this ancient poem to all ages.

1892 Temple Bar July 402 She..has a way of subduing all things to her own timeless fashions... She laughs at ‘gothic’, ‘classical’, ‘fin-de-siècle’.

1922 J. Hergesheimer Bright Shawl 171 She had seemed neither old nor young, but as invested with the timeless quality of her art.

1977 Time Out 28 Jan. 47 (caption) Everything from Philly soul harmonies through wittily timeless psychedelia and inspiring quasi-jazz.

2010 Brides Sept. 115/3 From a Sex in the City-inspired fashion-forward number to a boho floaty gown or a timeless Grace Kelly look.

2. Chiefly poetic. That has not happened at the proper or rightful time; not well-timed; untimely, unseasonable; esp. occurring or done prematurely. Now archaic and rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [adjective]

untimec1000

untidya1225

untimesa1300

out of season1377

undue1398

out of time1483

untimeousa1500

importunate1529

inopportune1533

importunea1535

unconvenable1542

intempestive1548

unseasonable1561

untimeable1570

out-of-season1574

untimely1581

unseasoned1589

baldc1590

timeless1590

melancounterous?1602

untimelessa1607

unopportune1653

mistimelyc1680

mistimed1687

ill-timed1692

ill-seasoned1843

unchancy1860

intempestuous1885

unseasonal1935

1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. L2^v Let earth and heauen his timelesse death deplore.

c1593 First Part Reign King Rich. II (1929) 98 Wert thou aliue to see how Ile reuenge thy tymless Tragedye on all ther heads.

?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads vi. 349 Wretched man! So timeless is thy spite That 'tis not honest.

1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 40 A timelesse, and vnseasonable birth.

a1769 W. Falconer Poet. Wks. (1798) 83 Well may'st thou mourn thy Patriot's timeless end.

1795 H. J. Pye War-elegies of Tyrtæus, Imitated ii. 31 A sorrowing nation mourns his timeless doom.

1850 ‘S. Yendys’ Roman iii. 43 Cease these timeless babblings.

1883 R. W. Dixon Mano iv. xv. 188 When Mano to his like and timeless end was hurled forth out of his iron mew.

1906 C. M. Doughty Dawn in Brit. IV. xiii. 12 And drooping are their battle-stained white crests; As they did weep, with men, his timeless death.

3. Having no sense of musical time or rhythm; that is out of time. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > [adjective] > skilfully > not

timeless1603

tuneless1821

musicless1854

1603 T. Powell Vertues Due sig. C6 Thou that ow'st this breathles beauty, Mistris of the dayes deuotion, And her blackest rites of duty, Guyd'st her timeles, tuneles motion.

1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto IV lxxxvii. 114 An ignorant, noteless, timeless, tuneless fellow.

1863 H. B. Goodwin Madge xliv. 314 I was pleased with Miss Foster's performance, so different from the usual insipid, timeless drumming of young ladies.

1926 Strad Apr. 769/2 Timeless playing will give a laboured effect much out of keeping with the spirit of the study.

†4. Brief, short-lived. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > [adjective]

shortc888

littleOE

shortlya1050

briefc1400

momentlya1425

small?a1439

momentany1447

momentaneous?a1450

stunta1450

momentaryc1485

momentane1510

hourlya1535

sudden1561

momentaneala1581

span-long1593

momentaneana1599

momental1606

narrow1611

timeless1657

concise1785

succinct1796

ultra-short1962

1657 A. Cokayne Obstinate Lady iii. i. 29 Thy timeless experience doth deceive thee.

5. Grammar. Not indicating a particular time; having no explicit tense. Cf. omnitemporal adj. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > tense > [adjective] > having a tense > not

timeless1817

tenseless1886

1817 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) IV. 769 The Hebrew verb here = the Greek Aorist or Indefinitum primum, or timeless Tense.

1837 G. Phillips Elem. Syriac Gram. 112 The participle is timeless; i.e. it has no time of its own; but partakes of every time with which it may be connected.

1891 Classical Rev. 5 248/2 Here, if anywhere, we have the ‘timeless’ aor. part. [sc. aorist participle].

1941 Slavonic Year-bk (Amer. Ser.) 1 243 The so-called Timeless Participle [in Turkish] is formed with the suffix -ar, -er, -ir, etc.

1979 Jrnl. Arabic Lit. 10 11 The tense to be assigned to the timeless Arabic participle is..the past.

1998 M. Casey Aramaic Sources Mark's Gospel iii. 125 I have suggested the timeless narrative participle,..for which a translator might naturally put a Greek present.

†B. adv.

= timelessly adv. 1. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [adverb]

in (earlier on) untimec897

untimelyc1200

out of timea1325

in unseasona1400

importunelyc1425

in an evil (also ill, etc.) hour1490

importunatelya1492

at ungaina1500

untimeously1513

intempestively1548

out of season1548

timeless1586

unseasonably1586

inopportunely1609

unseasonablea1634

unopportunely1651

timelessly1673

unseasonally1941

1586 Aunswere Tychbornes Lament. in Verses Prayse & Ioy sig. Aiii Thy glorie and thy glasse are timeles runne.

1631 G. Chapman Warres Pompey & Caesar ii. iv. 152 And 'tis their repaire That timelesse darken thus the gloomy ayre.

1658 R. Brathwait Age of Apes in Honest Ghost 270 Yet what effect produc'd these plots to all Those state-aspiring Flyes but timelesse fall?

1765 W. Shirley Electra i. v. 16 Great Agamemnon had not timeless bled.

1787 J. Thelwall Poems Var. Subj. I. 168 Not Damon's treach'ry, but rash Thudor's ire Points the keen shaft by which you timeless bleed.

1876 A. C. Swinburne Erechtheus 256 To slay thee timeless with my proper tongue.

C. n.

With the. That which is timeless or is unaffected by the passage of time; esp. that which exists outside of, or is unbounded by, time; the eternal.In quot. 1892: spec. God; = eternal n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [noun] > eternal thing(s) or truth(s)

eternals1649

timeless1825

the eternities1843

imperishable1849

the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > [noun] > as everlasting

everlastinga1382

the Eternal1582

ever-living1601

the Eterne1613

the Interminable1671

ever-present1838

timeless1892

1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 26 All the truths, acts and duties that have an especial reference to the Timeless, the Permanent, the Eternal.

1892 Ld. Tennyson Akbar's Dream in Death of Œnone 39 Kneel adoring Him the Timeless in the flame that measures Time!

1938 Philos. Sci. 5 268 The emphasis has been on the eternal in the sense of the timeless.

1998 New Yorker 5 Oct. 16/3 One should keep in mind that the artist allied his art with the timeless and the tragic.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	timeless
释义	timelessadj.adv.n. Brit. /ˈtʌɪmlᵻs/, U.S. /ˈtaɪmlᵻs/ Forms: see time n., int., and conj. and -less suffix. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: time n., -less suffix. Etymology: < time n. + -less suffix.With sense A. 5 compare aorist n., indefinite adj. 3b, and later omnitemporal adj. 2. A. adj. 1. a. Existing or operating outside of or without reference to time, (in early use) esp. eternal, as opposed to temporal; not subject to or bound by the passing of time. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [adjective] > in past and future duration or transcending time everlasting1340 eternec1366 eternal1488 eterminablea1528 timeless1574 supertemporal1837 morrowless1844 dayless1848 supratemporal1860 a-temporal1862 dateless1894 transhistorical1909 1574 Certaine Select Prayers sig. Jii^v O most auncient light which shonest before all light in the hill of thy tymelesse eternitie. a1628 F. Greville Treat. Humane Learning xcvi, in Certaine Wks. (1633) 41 Curious mystery, Of timelesse time. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 781 The reason why we cannot frame a Conception of such a Timeless Eternity. 1713 Indictment 29 Regicides ii. 55 Every Saint has what his heart can desire, it is a Sinless, Sorrowless, Temptationless, Oppressionless, Sickless, Timeless and Endless estate. 1819 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 5 323 There timeless, spaceless, dwells the Eternal One. 1906 D. W. Forrest Authority of Christ vi. i. 309 In speaking of the last day we are using a temporal expression for an unspeakable and timeless reality. 1943 Mind 52 343 The individual consciousness..does not and cannot regard itself as being literally timeless and extra-spatial. 1987 J. H. Alexander Reading Wordsworth Introd. 4 Much of Wordsworth's poetry seeks a repose, an extreme quietness, which approaches a timeless nirvana. 2001 Y. Berg Power of Kabbalah (2004) iii. 78 This is the realm that Plato wrote about—the timeless world of Ideas or Forms that exists ‘beyond’ the physical world of the five senses. b. literary (chiefly poetic). Everlasting, eternal; spec. apparently suspended from time, evoking a sense of eternity. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [adjective] echec825 echelichc825 endlessc888 lastinga1225 everlastingc1225 perdurablec1275 perpetuala1325 unendeda1325 incorruptiblea1340 ay-lastingc1340 inlastingc1340 eternec1366 interminablec1374 unstanchablec1374 ever-duringa1382 eternalc1386 sempitern1390 never-failinga1400 sempiternal14.. ever-being?a1425 ever-durable?a1425 immarcescible?a1475 perennal?c1500 deathless1547 everlastable1548 incessant1557 unperishing1561 undeterminable1581 evera1586 unendlya1586 inexterminable1592 never-ending?1592 aeviternal1596 dateless1597 undecaying1599 entombless1601 perishless1605 ageless1609 continual1610 perpetuous1612 imperible1614 ne'er-endinga1616 out-date1623 undated1624 perennious1628 immortal1630 imperishable1648 birthless1651 fadeless1652 sempiternous1653 evergreen1655 intemporal1656 indefectible1659 inconclusible1660 unending1661 aeonian1664 unfading1665 sempervirent1668 amaranthal1674 ne'er-dying1693 perennial1717 timeless1742 indefeatablea1754 amaranthine1782 aeonial1800 unterminating1821 unevanescent1827 ay1845 forever1879 sempervirid1909 1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Second 17 When Worlds..Headlong rush To timeless Night, and Chaos, whence they rose. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems ci. 10 Yea, take, brother, a long Ave, a timeless adieu. 1938 L. Hughes in Fight for Peace & Democracy July 14 In the timeless midnight of the Fascist guns, Madrid cries No! 1955 W. H. Auden Shield of Achilles ii. 43 In timeless fermatas of awe and delight. 1976 E. Lowbury Poetry & Paradox 15 We sat silent for a timeless hour. 1983 R. S. Thomas in P. Wakefield & F. Perring Britain 96 For a timeless moment the birds thronged me. c. Unaffected by the passage of time or changes in fashion; perpetually relevant, valuable, appealing, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > [adjective] > long-lasting or enduring > of a fluctuation or trend timeless1889 secular1895 the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [adjective] > that serves or is valid for all time perpetuala1325 timeless1889 1889 Public Opinion 14 Dec. 252/2 The author shows the timeless appeal of this ancient poem to all ages. 1892 Temple Bar July 402 She..has a way of subduing all things to her own timeless fashions... She laughs at ‘gothic’, ‘classical’, ‘fin-de-siècle’. 1922 J. Hergesheimer Bright Shawl 171 She had seemed neither old nor young, but as invested with the timeless quality of her art. 1977 Time Out 28 Jan. 47 (caption) Everything from Philly soul harmonies through wittily timeless psychedelia and inspiring quasi-jazz. 2010 Brides Sept. 115/3 From a Sex in the City-inspired fashion-forward number to a boho floaty gown or a timeless Grace Kelly look. 2. Chiefly poetic. That has not happened at the proper or rightful time; not well-timed; untimely, unseasonable; esp. occurring or done prematurely. Now archaic and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [adjective] untimec1000 untidya1225 untimesa1300 out of season1377 undue1398 out of time1483 untimeousa1500 importunate1529 inopportune1533 importunea1535 unconvenable1542 intempestive1548 unseasonable1561 untimeable1570 out-of-season1574 untimely1581 unseasoned1589 baldc1590 timeless1590 melancounterous?1602 untimelessa1607 unopportune1653 mistimelyc1680 mistimed1687 ill-timed1692 ill-seasoned1843 unchancy1860 intempestuous1885 unseasonal1935 1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. L2^v Let earth and heauen his timelesse death deplore. c1593 First Part Reign King Rich. II (1929) 98 Wert thou aliue to see how Ile reuenge thy tymless Tragedye on all ther heads. ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads vi. 349 Wretched man! So timeless is thy spite That 'tis not honest. 1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 40 A timelesse, and vnseasonable birth. a1769 W. Falconer Poet. Wks. (1798) 83 Well may'st thou mourn thy Patriot's timeless end. 1795 H. J. Pye War-elegies of Tyrtæus, Imitated ii. 31 A sorrowing nation mourns his timeless doom. 1850 ‘S. Yendys’ Roman iii. 43 Cease these timeless babblings. 1883 R. W. Dixon Mano iv. xv. 188 When Mano to his like and timeless end was hurled forth out of his iron mew. 1906 C. M. Doughty Dawn in Brit. IV. xiii. 12 And drooping are their battle-stained white crests; As they did weep, with men, his timeless death. 3. Having no sense of musical time or rhythm; that is out of time. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > [adjective] > skilfully > not timeless1603 tuneless1821 musicless1854 1603 T. Powell Vertues Due sig. C6 Thou that ow'st this breathles beauty, Mistris of the dayes deuotion, And her blackest rites of duty, Guyd'st her timeles, tuneles motion. 1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto IV lxxxvii. 114 An ignorant, noteless, timeless, tuneless fellow. 1863 H. B. Goodwin Madge xliv. 314 I was pleased with Miss Foster's performance, so different from the usual insipid, timeless drumming of young ladies. 1926 Strad Apr. 769/2 Timeless playing will give a laboured effect much out of keeping with the spirit of the study. †4. Brief, short-lived. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > [adjective] shortc888 littleOE shortlya1050 briefc1400 momentlya1425 small?a1439 momentany1447 momentaneous?a1450 stunta1450 momentaryc1485 momentane1510 hourlya1535 sudden1561 momentaneala1581 span-long1593 momentaneana1599 momental1606 narrow1611 timeless1657 concise1785 succinct1796 ultra-short1962 1657 A. Cokayne Obstinate Lady iii. i. 29 Thy timeless experience doth deceive thee. 5. Grammar. Not indicating a particular time; having no explicit tense. Cf. omnitemporal adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > tense > [adjective] > having a tense > not timeless1817 tenseless1886 1817 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) IV. 769 The Hebrew verb here = the Greek Aorist or Indefinitum primum, or timeless Tense. 1837 G. Phillips Elem. Syriac Gram. 112 The participle is timeless; i.e. it has no time of its own; but partakes of every time with which it may be connected. 1891 Classical Rev. 5 248/2 Here, if anywhere, we have the ‘timeless’ aor. part. [sc. aorist participle]. 1941 Slavonic Year-bk (Amer. Ser.) 1 243 The so-called Timeless Participle [in Turkish] is formed with the suffix -ar, -er, -ir, etc. 1979 Jrnl. Arabic Lit. 10 11 The tense to be assigned to the timeless Arabic participle is..the past. 1998 M. Casey Aramaic Sources Mark's Gospel iii. 125 I have suggested the timeless narrative participle,..for which a translator might naturally put a Greek present. †B. adv. = timelessly adv. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [adverb] in (earlier on) untimec897 untimelyc1200 out of timea1325 in unseasona1400 importunelyc1425 in an evil (also ill, etc.) hour1490 importunatelya1492 at ungaina1500 untimeously1513 intempestively1548 out of season1548 timeless1586 unseasonably1586 inopportunely1609 unseasonablea1634 unopportunely1651 timelessly1673 unseasonally1941 1586 Aunswere Tychbornes Lament. in Verses Prayse & Ioy sig. Aiii Thy glorie and thy glasse are timeles runne. 1631 G. Chapman Warres Pompey & Caesar ii. iv. 152 And 'tis their repaire That timelesse darken thus the gloomy ayre. 1658 R. Brathwait Age of Apes in Honest Ghost 270 Yet what effect produc'd these plots to all Those state-aspiring Flyes but timelesse fall? 1765 W. Shirley Electra i. v. 16 Great Agamemnon had not timeless bled. 1787 J. Thelwall Poems Var. Subj. I. 168 Not Damon's treach'ry, but rash Thudor's ire Points the keen shaft by which you timeless bleed. 1876 A. C. Swinburne Erechtheus 256 To slay thee timeless with my proper tongue. C. n. With the. That which is timeless or is unaffected by the passage of time; esp. that which exists outside of, or is unbounded by, time; the eternal.In quot. 1892: spec. God; = eternal n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [noun] > eternal thing(s) or truth(s) eternals1649 timeless1825 the eternities1843 imperishable1849 the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > [noun] > as everlasting everlastinga1382 the Eternal1582 ever-living1601 the Eterne1613 the Interminable1671 ever-present1838 timeless1892 1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 26 All the truths, acts and duties that have an especial reference to the Timeless, the Permanent, the Eternal. 1892 Ld. Tennyson Akbar's Dream in Death of Œnone 39 Kneel adoring Him the Timeless in the flame that measures Time! 1938 Philos. Sci. 5 268 The emphasis has been on the eternal in the sense of the timeless. 1998 New Yorker 5 Oct. 16/3 One should keep in mind that the artist allied his art with the timeless and the tragic. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.adv.n.1574
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