Lifelong education means perpetual retraining.
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Perpetual
//pɚˈpɛt͡ʃuəl//
Synonyms for "perpetual" (242 found)
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Closest matches (49)
Strong matches (72)
Adjective(4 words)
eternaleternally the sameeterneever-beingever-durableever-duringevergreeneverlastingeverlivingexhaustlessextending everywherefirmfixedfrozengloriousgoodhabitualhallowedhardyhighest
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holyillimitableillimitedimmeasurableimmemorialimmenseimmobileimmortalimmutableincalculableincessantincomprehensibleindestructibleinexhaustibleinfiniteinfinitely continuousinnumerableintactinterminableinterminateintransientinvariableinveterateinviolatejustlastinglimitlesslong lastinglong livedlong standinglong termlong-lastinglong-livedlong-standinglong-termlongevallongevousloving
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luminousmachine gunmacrobioticmajesticmakingmeasurelessmercifulnever endingnever-ceasingnever-endingno end ofnonstopnonterminatingnonterminousnuminousof long durationof long standingolamicoldomnipotent
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omnipresentomniscientoneongoingoscillatingperdurableperduringperennialpersistentpersistingpulsatingquiescentradiantrapidrecurrentregularrelentlessremainingrepeatedrepetitiverigidrunningsacredsempervirentsempiternalshapingshorelesssolidsovereignstablestaccatostandingstaticstationarystayingsteadfaststeadystutteringsumlesssupremesustainedtermlesstimelesstorpidtoughubiquitousunalteredunboundedunbrokenunceasingunchangeableunchangedunchanginguncheckeduncircumscribedundefinedundestroyedundeviatingunendingunfadingunfailingunfathomableunintermittedunintermittentunintermittinguninterrupteduniversalunlimitedunmeasurableunmeasuredunnumberedunplumbedunremittingunshiftingunstoppeduntoldunvariedunvaryingvibratingvitalwithout boundwithout endwithout limitwithout measurewithout number
Adjective(12 words)
Adjective(4 words)
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1 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
24 entriesa contented mind is a perpetual feasthybrid perpetualnonperpetualperpetual betaperpetual bondperpetual canonperpetual curateperpetual futuresperpetual inventoryperpetual licenseperpetual motionperpetual motion machineperpetual motion machine of the first kindperpetual motion machine of the second kindperpetual pillperpetual revolution
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14 entriessimilar
5 entriesTranslations
75 translations across 29 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- αἰώνιος adj (lasting forever)
- ἐνδελεχής adj (continuing; uninterrupted)
Bulgarian
4 entries- безкраен adj (lasting forever)
- вечен adj (lasting forever)
- непрекъснат adj (continuing; uninterrupted)
- постоянен adj (continuing; uninterrupted)
Catalan
2 entries- perpetu adj (lasting forever)
- perpetual adj (lasting forever)
Chinese Cantonese
2 entries- 無休止嘅 /无休止嘅 adj (continuing; uninterrupted)
- 連續不斷嘅 /连续不断嘅 adj (continuing; uninterrupted)
Danish
3 entries- evig adj (lasting forever)
- permanent adj (continuing; uninterrupted)
- vedvarende adj (continuing; uninterrupted)
Dutch
2 entries- eeuwig adj (lasting forever)
- eeuwigdurend adj (lasting forever)
Finnish
4 entries- ikuinen adj (lasting forever)
- jatkuva adj (continuing; uninterrupted)
- koko kasvukauden kukkiva adj (flowering throughout the growing season)
- päättymätön adj (lasting forever)
French
1 entries- perpétuel adj (lasting forever)
Galician
1 entries- perpetuo adj (lasting forever)
German
4 entries- dauerhaft adj (lasting forever)
- ewig adj (lasting forever)
- fortwährend adj (continuing; uninterrupted)
- immerblühend adj (flowering throughout the growing season)
Greek
3 entries- αέναος adj (continuing; uninterrupted)
- παντοτινός adj (lasting forever)
- πολυετής adj (flowering throughout the growing season)
Hungarian
4 entries- folytonos adj (continuing; uninterrupted)
- szakadatlan adj (continuing; uninterrupted)
- örökké tartó adj (lasting forever)
- örökös adj (lasting forever)
Indonesian
1 entries- abadi adj (lasting forever)
Ingrian
1 entries- jokaaikain adj (lasting forever)
Irish
2 entries- síoraí adj (lasting forever)
- síoraí adj (continuing; uninterrupted)
Italian
2 entries- perenne adj (continuing; uninterrupted)
- perpetuo adj (lasting forever)
Korean
1 entries- 영구의 adj (lasting forever)
Latin
4 entries- aeternus adj (lasting forever)
- iūgis adj (continuing; uninterrupted)
- perpes adj (continuing; uninterrupted)
- perpetuus adj (lasting forever)
Māori
1 entries- mutungakore adj (lasting forever)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- evigvarende adj (lasting forever)
Occitan
1 entries- perpetual adj (lasting forever)
Old English
1 entries- ēċe adj (lasting forever)
Ottoman Turkish
4 entries- ابدی adj (lasting forever)
- دایم adj (lasting forever)
- صوڭسز adj (lasting forever)
- موبد adj (lasting forever)
Polish
2 entries- bezustanny adj (continuing; uninterrupted)
- wieczny adj (lasting forever)
Portuguese
3 entries- perpétuo adj (lasting forever)
- perpétuo adj (continuing; uninterrupted)
- perpétuo adj (flowering throughout the growing season)
Romanian
2 entries- perpetuu adj (lasting forever)
- perpetuu adj (continuing; uninterrupted)
Russian
1 entries- вечный adj (lasting forever)
Spanish
1 entries- perpetuo adj (lasting forever)
Ukrainian
3 entries- безперервний adj (continuing; uninterrupted)
- вічний adj (lasting forever)
- постійний adj (continuing; uninterrupted)
Sample 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.
Source: tatoeba (390009)
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Source: tatoeba (678615)
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
Source: tatoeba (906652)
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