abiding
- adjective
- /əˈbaɪdɪŋ/
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perdurable
- His abiding faith in humanity gives him hope even during difficult times.
I think it's your great abiding obsession.
- I think it's your great abiding obsession.
- And then that begat, begat begat some really abiding friendships.
- He was Robert Penn Warren's favorite poet, probably because Melville had such a deep and abiding sense of tragedy.
- There's a deep and abiding patriotism inside Russia as well as inside the Russian regime.
- There is an all abiding peace underneath it, although there may be tears on the surface, but then they disappear.
- But millennialism is a deep, old abiding conception of the connection between religion and history.
- There's a way in which a person's tools connects each of them in a really abiding way.
Examples
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She has an abiding love for her hometown that she carried with her wherever she went.
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For my generation, the abiding memory of our Queen is her stunning beauty when she came to the throne.
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We hope that it will be an abiding gift.
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I'm George Wood and a deep abiding commitment to the environment.
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But that is not the path to abiding acceptance.
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Most importantly, his love for this institution is deep, abiding and without compare.
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There is an all abiding peace underneath it, although there may be tears on the surface, but then they disappear.
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A deep and abiding admiration for the character of Peter Parker.
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There's a deep and abiding patriotism inside Russia as well as inside the Russian regime.
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He was Robert Penn Warren's favorite poet, probably because Melville had such a deep and abiding sense of tragedy.
Synonyms
650
3.2
Continuing for a long time and unlikely to change
362
4.3
Lasting forever without end
198
2.5
Happens all the time without stopping
190
2.4
Being in a job, role, or relationship for a long time
167
3.5
Lasting for a person's whole life
45
4.1
Continuing for a long time
39
4.3
Lasting for a long time
39
4.5
Lasting forever without end
38
3.1
Continuing to be present or useful for a long time
27
3.7
To stay the same or work well for a long time
22
5.8
Being firm in belief or support that does not change
21
5.3
Continuing for a long time and often returning
21
4.3
Returning to your mind often and hard to forget
6
3.9
That lasts for a long time
2
5.5
Something that lasts forever and never ends
2
7.3
Not able to be destroyed and lasting forever
1
4.2
Continuing for a long time without fading
Happening over a long time and not finished
Lasting for a very long time
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Etymology
Abiding comes from the old verb abide, which means 'to stay' or 'remain'. Think of the phrase bide your time, which means 'to wait patiently', so an abiding feeling is one that 'stays' for a long time.