Lifelong education means perpetual retraining.
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Perpetual
/pɚˈpɛt͡ʃuəl/
Synonyms for "perpetual" (221 found)
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Adjective(9 words)
abidingage-longagedagelessall comprehensiveall inclusiveall powerfulall seeingall-comprehensiveall-inclusiveall-knowingall-powerfulall-seeingall-wisealmightyancientantiqueboundlessceaselesschangeless
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Adjective(3 words)
eternaleternally the sameeterneever-beingever-durableever-duringevergreeneverlastingeverlivingexhaustlessextending everywherefirmfixedfrozengloriousgoodhabitualhallowedhardyhighest
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holyillimitableillimitedimmeasurableimmemorialimmenseimmobileimmortalimmutableincalculableincessantincomprehensibleindestructibleinexhaustibleinfiniteinfinitely continuousinnumerableintactinterminableinterminateintransientinvariableinveterateinviolatejustlastinglimitlesslong lastinglong livedlong standinglong termlong-lastinglong-livedlong-standinglong-termlongevallongevouslovingluminousmachine gunmacrobioticmajesticmaking
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measurelessmercifulnever endingnever-ceasingnever-endingno end ofnonstopnonterminatingnonterminousnuminousof long durationof long standingolamicoldomnipotentomnipresentomniscientoneongoingoscillating
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perdurableperduringperennialpermanentpersistentpersistingpulsatingquiescentradiantrapidrecurrentregularrelentlessremainingrepeatedrepetitiverigidrunningsacredsempervirentsempiternalshapingshorelesssolidsovereignstablestaccatostandingstaticstationarystayingsteadfaststeadystutteringsumlesssupremesustainedtermlesstimelesstorpidtoughubiquitousunalteredunboundedunbrokenunceasingunchangeableunchangedunchanginguncheckeduncircumscribedundefinedundestroyedundeviatingunendingunfadingunfailingunfathomableunintermittedunintermittentunintermittinguninterrupteduniversalunlimitedunmeasurableunmeasuredunnumberedunplumbedunremittingunshiftingunstoppeduntoldunvariedunvaryingvibratingvitalwithout boundwithout endwithout limitwithout measurewithout number
Adjective(9 words)
never-endingpermanentpermanent appointmentunceasingunendedunendingunlimited durationunremittingunsleeping
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4 entriesSample sentences
15 total sentences available.
Justice is the constant and perpetual desire to give to each one that to which he is entitled. Jurisprudence is the knowledge of matters divine and human, and the comprehension of what is just and what is unjust.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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