Synonyms for perpetual
pərˈpɛtʃ u əlper·pet·u·al

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1. perpetual

   Continuous describes that which is absolutely without pause or break; continual, that which often intermits, but as regularly begins again. A continuous beach is exposed to the continual beating of the waves. A similar distinction is made between incessant and ceaseless. The incessant discharge of firearms makes the ceaseless roar of battle. Constant is sometimes used in the sense of continual; but its chief uses are mental and moral.

   Synonyms:
   ceaseless, constant, continual, continuous, incessant, invariable, regular, unbroken, unceasing, uninterrupted, unremitting, unvarying

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1. perpetual

   Synonyms:
   constant, unceasing, endless, eternal, everlasting, unfailing, perennial, continual, enduring, incessant, uninterrupted

   Antonyms:
   inconstant, periodic, recurrent, temporary, transient, falling, exhaustible, occasional, momentary, casual

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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"

   Synonyms:
   everlasting, eonian, sodding(a), utter(a), thoroughgoing(a), double-dyed(a), interminable, complete(a), ageless, unceasing, staring(a), unremitting, gross(a), incessant, unending, arrant(a), stark(a), ceaseless, consummate(a), pure(a), everlasting(a), unadulterated, constant, aeonian, perfect(a), never-ending, endless, eternal

   Antonyms:
   discontinuous, noncontinuous, temporary, impermanent

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"

   Synonyms:
   incessant, unvarying, eonian, changeless, unending, everlasting, aeonian, invariant, unceasing, unremitting, constant, never-ending, eternal, ageless, ceaseless

   Antonyms:
   discontinuous, temporary, impermanent, noncontinuous

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1. ethernal

   the same

   Submitted by anonymous on November 24, 2019  

2. evermoving

   always in motion,never ending.

   the new baby's crying needs keeps the young mother in perpetual motion.

   Submitted by JP03 on July 6, 2015  

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1. perpetualadjective

   Synonyms:
   endless, unending, everlasting, eternal, ever-during, ceaseless, continual, incessant, unintermitted, uninterrupted, constant, interminable, perennial

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1. perpetualadjective

   Synonyms:
   everlasting

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1. List of paraphrases for "perpetual":

   eternal, perennial, permanent, constant, everlasting, continual

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1. Al Dowayan:

   I do feel excluded out of my society -- women are perpetual minors in my Saudi, the woman in that picture is a young Saudi woman who received a scholarship for high school through football, so she really did play very well -- obviously she doesn't play it anymore because there is no league in the country.

2. Douglas MacArthur:

   The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

3. Anais Nin:

   I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.

4. Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn Davis:

   As an African American woman, I can unequivocally attest to the perpetual existence of discriminatory practices that remain a haunting reality for people of color throughout our nation, i am cautiously optimistic that the cries of our America will be heard and acted upon so that once and for all Black lives are valued in the eyes of all police officers.

5. Colin Powell:

   Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.