abiding
17
4.4
- adjective
- /əˈbaɪdɪŋ/
- His abiding faith in humanity gives him hope even during difficult times.
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- 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
613
3.2
Continuing for a long time and unlikely to change
525
2.5
Happens all the time without stopping
357
4.3
Lasting forever without end
209
2.8
Happening over a long time and not finished
189
2.4
Being in a job, role, or relationship for a long time
178
3.1
Continuing to be present or useful for a long time
139
3.5
Lasting for a person's whole life
72
4.5
Lasting forever without end
71
4.2
Continuing for a long time without fading
55
4.1
Continuing for a long time
40
3.7
To stay the same or work well for a long time
38
4.3
Lasting for a long time
30
5.3
Continuing for a long time and often returning
26
5.5
Something that lasts forever and never ends
24
5.8
Being firm in belief or support that does not change
20
3.9
That lasts for a long time
2
7.3
Not able to be destroyed and lasting forever
1
4.3
Returning to your mind often and hard to forget
Lasting for a very long time
Antonyms
Compounds
How Enduring
72
4.5
613
3.2
71
4.2
17
4.4
40
3.7
178
3.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.