Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man...
Source: tatoeba (918765)
Immemorial
/ɪ.məˈmɔːɹi.əl/
Synonyms for "immemorial" (110 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (22)
Strong matches (33)
elderlyendlesserstwhileestablishedeternaleterneever-beingever-durableever-duringeverlastingeverlivingfixedfolkforeformerhallowedhanded downheroichoaryincessant
Show 12 more words
indestructibleinfiniteinterminableinveteratelatelegendarylong establishedlong standinglong-establishedlong-standingmythologicalnever ending
Adjective(1 words)
Related words (55)
never-ceasingnever-endingnonstopnonterminatingnonterminousof long standingof oldof the folkof yoreolamicoldold as historyold as methuselahold as timeold-timeoldenonceonetimeoralpast
Show 34 more words
perdurablepermanentperpetualprehistoricprescriptivepreviousprimevalprimitivepriorquondamreceivedrecentrecognizedrootedsempiternalsometimesteadythentime-honoredtimelesstraditionaltried and truetrue bluetrue-blueunceasingunderstoodunendingunintermittinguninterruptedunremittingunwrittenvenerablewithout endworshipful
Adjective(1 words)
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
6 entriescultural descriptorhistorical attributehistorical descriptorrhetorical devicestylistic registertemporal adjective
More specific
7 entriesCollocations
6 entriesimmemorial customimmemorial eraimmemorial pastimmemorial rightsimmemorial traditiontime immemorial
Inflections
2 entriesmore immemorialmost immemorial
Derivations
2 entriessimilar
1 entriesSample sentences
13 total sentences available.
The Yule Log has from time immemorial been haled to the open fire-place on Christmas Eve, and lighted with the embers of its predecessor to sanctify the roof-tree and protect it against those evil spirits over whom the season is in everyway a triumph.
Source: tatoeba (5681824)
Students have complained about homework assignments since time immemorial.
Source: tatoeba (6464051)
Berber traders entered sub-Saharan Africa since times immemorial.
Source: tatoeba (10120371)
Showing 4 of 13 available sentences.