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Definition of perpetual in English: perpetualadjective pəˈpɛtʃʊəlpərˈpɛtʃ(u)əl 1Never ending or changing. deep caves in perpetual darkness Example sentencesExamples - Some labor under the delusion that Alaska is smitten with almost perpetual darkness in winter and never ending light in the summer.
- Do Americans want to live in a perpetual state of fear and war?
- It had been huge, whirling, powerful, unrelenting, with a perpetual fury against anything and everything in the world.
- Just as money can't buy love, neither can an Oscar guarantee perpetual box office success.
- If I was in fact standing, the ground beneath me was blackened by the perpetual darkness of this now empty dream.
- She had a feeling that any creature who lived in perpetual darkness would probably be cranky.
- Sontag saw the consequence of living in this perpetual state of fear as ‘an unparalleled violence that is being done to our sense of reality, our humanity’.
- There is no other way he could explain it; one moment he was scouting with Kat and the next he was surrounded by perpetual darkness.
- Then time seemed to become an abyss a perpetual fall that would never end.
- The staircase became treacherous, cast into a state of almost perpetual darkness, and since the tunnel was so steep and so narrow, a slip could prove to be fatal.
- Remus, in close orbit to Romulus, is locked in an odd rotation around its sun, causing half the planet to be in perpetual darkness.
- There are now 11.4 million legal permanent residents in the United States living in perpetual fear that their status may be in jeopardy next.
- The stars had disappeared and now everything looked like it had been swallowed by perpetual darkness.
- If the task were left up to C. and A., the neighbors to the west, we'd be plunged into perpetual darkness.
- They were able to fly in unnoticed thanks to the cover of perpetual darkness that was provided by outer space.
- More importantly, it is a country that exists in perpetual darkness for most of the winter.
- The sole purpose of this ‘advisory’ appears to be to maintain people in a state of perpetual fear, and also rage at their impotence.
- It became a costly and heavy burden for the Zionists and a perpetual source of fear for its soldiers and settlers.
- But the writers knew that a perpetual darkness was not something that would always keep the viewers coming back.
- His subjects were taught that he created the dawn of each new day, so that his death in 1994 provoked fear of perpetual darkness.
Synonyms everlasting, never-ending, eternal, permanent, unending, endless, without end, lasting, long-lasting, constant, abiding, enduring, perennial, timeless, ageless, deathless, undying, immortal unfailing, unchanging, never-changing, changeless, unvarying, unfading, invariable, immutable, indissoluble, indestructible, imperishable rare sempiternal, perdurable constant, permanent, uninterrupted, continuous, unremitting, unending, unceasing, persistent, unbroken - 1.1attributive Denoting or having a position, job, or trophy held for life.
a perpetual secretary of the society Example sentencesExamples - Medals and trophy presentations will be very much part of the day while a perpetual trophy for the best area will also be presented
- Winners will receive perpetual cups and trophies.
- If Maeve is crowned Queen of the Land she will win a perpetual trophy, a substantial prize fund and a weekend for two in the Bridge House Hotel.
- A perpetual trophy depicting the Children of Lir is to be awarded to the winning student each year and will be displayed in their school for the next 12 months.
- Their intention is, to crush all opposition, to their personal, perpetual world rule.
- For the fourth consecutive year and for the seventh time in the past nine years the County Carlow Darts championship perpetual trophy rests in Ballon.
- There is a perpetual trophy and 200 euros for the best overall float.
- The winner will receive the Michael Collins Youth Award perpetual trophy and will represent Waterford in the Regional Final later in the year.
- As well as receiving two certificates, which she is to place on the wall of her shop, Catherine also received three trophies, two of which are perpetual trophies.
- According to Clark, an unrestricted market with absolute and perpetual land titles is sufficient to allocate land efficiently and distribute rent fairly.
- There was a competition within each grade with a perpetual trophy at stake and small cups for the winners with placed dancers receiving medals.
- Polly receives $150 for winning the award, while Richmond River High School was presented with the perpetual trophy.
- The overall winner will receive £2,000 and a perpetual trophy.
- The under-14 quiz team from Brosna arrived home bearing gold medals and the Colum Mooney perpetual trophy after coming first in Ireland out of 50 teams.
- The Rotary Club of Corsham is planning to sponsor perpetual trophies for some of the town's sports clubs for the centenary landmark.
- The region's golfers can play alongside the national sportspeople plus have chance to win the perpetual trophy and a number of individual prizes.
- The winners will receive a perpetual trophy and go forward to compete in the ESB All - Ireland Debating series.
- The winner of the perpetual trophy, which recognises the school with the most awards, went to Churchtown National School.
- The ladies Cup, for which yachts competed at Rosses Point at the weekend is reputed to be the oldest perpetual trophy in the world for which sailors still compete.
- If this trend continues, looks like Trish might be taking home the perpetual trophy this year.
- 1.2 (of an investment) having no fixed maturity date; irredeemable.
Example sentencesExamples - The main tax benefits of establishing a perpetual trust accrue not to the donor or anyone she knows, but to beneficiaries whom the donor has never met - the unborn.
- A final and vital flaw in a market-basket dollar is that Gresham's law would result in perpetual shortages and surpluses of different commodities within the market basket.
- In valuing equation, i should be the U.S. government perpetual bond yield representing the risk free rate for an infinite time horizon.
- Their particular PIBS thus became perpetual subordinated bonds (PSBs).
- In the 1970s, the concept of perpetual government debt was still a relatively new idea in the United States.
- Indeed banks issue perpetual bonds that have no maturity date.
- First, the most obvious example is the Internet bubble where the majority of enterprises have no economic value whatsoever without perpetual financing.
- Lenders being more fair and truthful in their practices helps consumers who need to make minimum payments avoid perpetual debt.
- Suppose that the Argentine government issued perpetual bonds that paid an annual dividend equal to one ten-billionth of Argentine GDP, payable in pesos.
- There was the TMT bubble, where countless technology companies soared in value as investors fantasised over perpetual profit growth.
- But issuing open-ended preference shares with fixed coupon rates would be more in the nature of perpetual bonds.
- Those bonds issued by building societies that subsequently floated on the stock market are referred to as perpetual subordinated bonds (PSBs).
- The national debt is really perpetual debt, and perpetual debt has characteristics that make it different from normal debt.
- In credit card years, the debt is perpetual, thanks to interest-rate games, hidden fees, and low minimum payments.
- The triumph of the funding system and its corollary of perpetual debt is undeniable.
- Under the agreement, the government will issue special bonds called perpetual promissory notes to the central bank to cover the loans.
- These perpetual deficits are now on the verge of spiraling out of control, and only a blind optimist would discount the potential for a serious dollar accident.
2Occurring repeatedly; so frequent as to seem endless and uninterrupted. their perpetual money worries Example sentencesExamples - What with their incessant, continual, never ending, perpetual and stop-less demands for financial assistance I see only one clear course of action.
- In some cases even wards such as teachers who are supposed to look after children abuse them and many parents are now in perpetual worry over the safety of their children.
- Many of the small and shrinking group of health researchers in Pakistan work in a state of perpetual despondency, frequently with little access to policymakers and planners.
- It is the essential nature of work to be perpetual, repetitive, habitual.
- And I was appalled at the recurrent, perpetual mistakes that had been made by the international community of nations when it comes to Third World debt.
- Now he took his anger out on all three of them, including Summer, whose poor grades and frequent partying were perpetual sources of disappointment.
- What's less clear is whether that application growth is itself driven by the falling cost of bulk disk capacity and by the perpetual need to do more for less money.
- There are no tests for a start and no perpetual worries over league table places.
- The seemingly compassionate phrase, ‘Don't worry,’ eases few people of their perpetual worries.
- Meanwhile, there remained that perpetual money question.
- Neglected to an extreme, he is in an emotional state of perpetual and chronic traumatic stress - a state of alienation and self-annihilation.
- It is not ready for the federal election and is a perpetual worry.
Synonyms interminable, incessant, ceaseless, endless, without respite, relentless, unrelenting, persistent, frequent, continual, continuous, non-stop, never-ending, recurrent, repeated, unremitting, sustained, round-the-clock, always-on, habitual, chronic, unabating informal eternal 3(of a plant) blooming or fruiting several times in one season. he grows perpetual flowering carnations Example sentencesExamples - He grows perpetual carnations, a laborious and painstaking business, putting a collar on each one to prevent it from splitting before a show.
Origin Middle English: from Old French perpetuel, from Latin perpetualis, from perpetuus 'continuing throughout', from perpes, perpet- 'continuous'. Definition of perpetual in US English: perpetualadjectivepərˈpɛtʃ(u)əlpərˈpeCH(o͞o)əl 1Never ending or changing. deep caves in perpetual darkness Example sentencesExamples - There is no other way he could explain it; one moment he was scouting with Kat and the next he was surrounded by perpetual darkness.
- Some labor under the delusion that Alaska is smitten with almost perpetual darkness in winter and never ending light in the summer.
- Do Americans want to live in a perpetual state of fear and war?
- Sontag saw the consequence of living in this perpetual state of fear as ‘an unparalleled violence that is being done to our sense of reality, our humanity’.
- But the writers knew that a perpetual darkness was not something that would always keep the viewers coming back.
- The sole purpose of this ‘advisory’ appears to be to maintain people in a state of perpetual fear, and also rage at their impotence.
- The staircase became treacherous, cast into a state of almost perpetual darkness, and since the tunnel was so steep and so narrow, a slip could prove to be fatal.
- Then time seemed to become an abyss a perpetual fall that would never end.
- It had been huge, whirling, powerful, unrelenting, with a perpetual fury against anything and everything in the world.
- There are now 11.4 million legal permanent residents in the United States living in perpetual fear that their status may be in jeopardy next.
- She had a feeling that any creature who lived in perpetual darkness would probably be cranky.
- His subjects were taught that he created the dawn of each new day, so that his death in 1994 provoked fear of perpetual darkness.
- They were able to fly in unnoticed thanks to the cover of perpetual darkness that was provided by outer space.
- The stars had disappeared and now everything looked like it had been swallowed by perpetual darkness.
- If the task were left up to C. and A., the neighbors to the west, we'd be plunged into perpetual darkness.
- It became a costly and heavy burden for the Zionists and a perpetual source of fear for its soldiers and settlers.
- Remus, in close orbit to Romulus, is locked in an odd rotation around its sun, causing half the planet to be in perpetual darkness.
- More importantly, it is a country that exists in perpetual darkness for most of the winter.
- If I was in fact standing, the ground beneath me was blackened by the perpetual darkness of this now empty dream.
- Just as money can't buy love, neither can an Oscar guarantee perpetual box office success.
Synonyms everlasting, never-ending, eternal, permanent, unending, endless, without end, lasting, long-lasting, constant, abiding, enduring, perennial, timeless, ageless, deathless, undying, immortal constant, permanent, uninterrupted, continuous, unremitting, unending, unceasing, persistent, unbroken - 1.1attributive Denoting a position, job, or trophy held for life rather than a limited period, or the person holding it.
a perpetual secretary of the society Example sentencesExamples - If Maeve is crowned Queen of the Land she will win a perpetual trophy, a substantial prize fund and a weekend for two in the Bridge House Hotel.
- Polly receives $150 for winning the award, while Richmond River High School was presented with the perpetual trophy.
- Their intention is, to crush all opposition, to their personal, perpetual world rule.
- The ladies Cup, for which yachts competed at Rosses Point at the weekend is reputed to be the oldest perpetual trophy in the world for which sailors still compete.
- A perpetual trophy depicting the Children of Lir is to be awarded to the winning student each year and will be displayed in their school for the next 12 months.
- For the fourth consecutive year and for the seventh time in the past nine years the County Carlow Darts championship perpetual trophy rests in Ballon.
- There is a perpetual trophy and 200 euros for the best overall float.
- The under-14 quiz team from Brosna arrived home bearing gold medals and the Colum Mooney perpetual trophy after coming first in Ireland out of 50 teams.
- The winners will receive a perpetual trophy and go forward to compete in the ESB All - Ireland Debating series.
- According to Clark, an unrestricted market with absolute and perpetual land titles is sufficient to allocate land efficiently and distribute rent fairly.
- The winner will receive the Michael Collins Youth Award perpetual trophy and will represent Waterford in the Regional Final later in the year.
- The Rotary Club of Corsham is planning to sponsor perpetual trophies for some of the town's sports clubs for the centenary landmark.
- The winner of the perpetual trophy, which recognises the school with the most awards, went to Churchtown National School.
- Winners will receive perpetual cups and trophies.
- The region's golfers can play alongside the national sportspeople plus have chance to win the perpetual trophy and a number of individual prizes.
- There was a competition within each grade with a perpetual trophy at stake and small cups for the winners with placed dancers receiving medals.
- The overall winner will receive £2,000 and a perpetual trophy.
- Medals and trophy presentations will be very much part of the day while a perpetual trophy for the best area will also be presented
- If this trend continues, looks like Trish might be taking home the perpetual trophy this year.
- As well as receiving two certificates, which she is to place on the wall of her shop, Catherine also received three trophies, two of which are perpetual trophies.
- 1.2 (of an investment) having no fixed maturity date; irredeemable.
Example sentencesExamples - In valuing equation, i should be the U.S. government perpetual bond yield representing the risk free rate for an infinite time horizon.
- Those bonds issued by building societies that subsequently floated on the stock market are referred to as perpetual subordinated bonds (PSBs).
- In credit card years, the debt is perpetual, thanks to interest-rate games, hidden fees, and low minimum payments.
- These perpetual deficits are now on the verge of spiraling out of control, and only a blind optimist would discount the potential for a serious dollar accident.
- First, the most obvious example is the Internet bubble where the majority of enterprises have no economic value whatsoever without perpetual financing.
- Lenders being more fair and truthful in their practices helps consumers who need to make minimum payments avoid perpetual debt.
- A final and vital flaw in a market-basket dollar is that Gresham's law would result in perpetual shortages and surpluses of different commodities within the market basket.
- The triumph of the funding system and its corollary of perpetual debt is undeniable.
- But issuing open-ended preference shares with fixed coupon rates would be more in the nature of perpetual bonds.
- Their particular PIBS thus became perpetual subordinated bonds (PSBs).
- The national debt is really perpetual debt, and perpetual debt has characteristics that make it different from normal debt.
- Indeed banks issue perpetual bonds that have no maturity date.
- There was the TMT bubble, where countless technology companies soared in value as investors fantasised over perpetual profit growth.
- The main tax benefits of establishing a perpetual trust accrue not to the donor or anyone she knows, but to beneficiaries whom the donor has never met - the unborn.
- Suppose that the Argentine government issued perpetual bonds that paid an annual dividend equal to one ten-billionth of Argentine GDP, payable in pesos.
- Under the agreement, the government will issue special bonds called perpetual promissory notes to the central bank to cover the loans.
- In the 1970s, the concept of perpetual government debt was still a relatively new idea in the United States.
2Occurring repeatedly; so frequent as to seem endless and uninterrupted. their perpetual money worries Example sentencesExamples - In some cases even wards such as teachers who are supposed to look after children abuse them and many parents are now in perpetual worry over the safety of their children.
- What with their incessant, continual, never ending, perpetual and stop-less demands for financial assistance I see only one clear course of action.
- And I was appalled at the recurrent, perpetual mistakes that had been made by the international community of nations when it comes to Third World debt.
- It is the essential nature of work to be perpetual, repetitive, habitual.
- What's less clear is whether that application growth is itself driven by the falling cost of bulk disk capacity and by the perpetual need to do more for less money.
- Now he took his anger out on all three of them, including Summer, whose poor grades and frequent partying were perpetual sources of disappointment.
- There are no tests for a start and no perpetual worries over league table places.
- The seemingly compassionate phrase, ‘Don't worry,’ eases few people of their perpetual worries.
- Meanwhile, there remained that perpetual money question.
- Neglected to an extreme, he is in an emotional state of perpetual and chronic traumatic stress - a state of alienation and self-annihilation.
- Many of the small and shrinking group of health researchers in Pakistan work in a state of perpetual despondency, frequently with little access to policymakers and planners.
- It is not ready for the federal election and is a perpetual worry.
Synonyms interminable, incessant, ceaseless, endless, without respite, relentless, unrelenting, persistent, frequent, continual, continuous, non-stop, never-ending, recurrent, repeated, unremitting, sustained, round-the-clock, always-on, habitual, chronic, unabating 3(of a plant) blooming or fruiting several times in one season. he grows perpetual carnations Example sentencesExamples - He grows perpetual carnations, a laborious and painstaking business, putting a collar on each one to prevent it from splitting before a show.
Origin Middle English: from Old French perpetuel, from Latin perpetualis, from perpetuus ‘continuing throughout’, from perpes, perpet- ‘continuous’. |