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lastingly

lastingly

1 5.8
In a way that continues for a long time
  • adverb
  • /ˈlæstɪŋli/
translation icon : duraderamente
  • The changes we made to the curriculum will lastingly improve students' learning outcomes.

Examples

  • But do they do this, lastingly and transcendently?

    Academic text (2000)
  • I know this isn't what you had in mind, but maybe we forget too quickly that kinky sex and the US military were solidly and lastingly "institutionalized" under Bush, and strenuously looked forward to by Obama.

    Blog text (22)
  • Nothing of this was lastingly clear.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • The many forms of human intelligence are most actively and lastingly engaged in a learning environment rich in experience and related patterns.

    Academic text (1998)
  • We shall build up again all that war has destroyed, and perhaps on firmer ground and more lastingly than before.

    Academic text (2009)
  • Relatively few people contribute in any individual way to those products of a civilization that are lastingly apparent to succeeding generations.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Smart as he was, the boy didn't quite understand their kind of fun, but he was lastingly impressed by their raked hats and genial, careless ways.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • As head of the Endowment from 1969 to 1977, Hanks had the skill and time to profoundly and lastingly affect the political context and agenda of federal policy and programming for the arts and arts education.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Both Duret and Zola recognized a desire on Pissarro's part to involve himself profoundly and intimately (and, as we will see, lastingly) in his pictures of landscape.

    Academic text (1998)
  • In Josipovici's novel "Sleep, the Blessed State" (167), it takes on a deeper meaning: it signifies the release from Westfield's philosophical anxieties (it was, as he says, the thought of immortality which once robbed him lastingly of his sleep).

    Academic text (2003)

Synonyms

perpetually
vslastingly
29 4.8

Happening all the time without stopping

describes extended duration but may not mean constant uninterrupted occurrence
in perpetuity
vslastingly
  • Formal
16 7.8

A time that lasts forever

emphasizes long duration but not necessarily legal or formal forever use
indelibly
vslastingly
7 7.2

In a way that cannot be removed or forgotten

relates to general long duration rather than irreversibility or mark
perennially
vslastingly
6 5.4

Happens every year or for a long time

means long duration but not necessarily regular repetition
enduringly
vslastingly
1 5.6

Continuing to exist or have effect for a long time

focuses on lasting or continuing in a permanent manner
everlastingly
vslastingly
1 7.4

In a way that lasts forever

means long lasting but can imply limited duration rather than infinite
abidingly
vslastingly
1 6.2

In a way that lasts for a long time

is about continuing in a permanent or long term way
immortally
vslastingly
8.1

In a way that lasts forever

describes long continuation but not the idea of never dying

Antonyms

414 1.0

For a short time or in a few words

1 6.8

For a short time before returning to normal

How Long

forever
1.0
permanently
218 2.9
lastingly
1 5.8
temporarily
222 3.2
briefly
414 1.0

Surface Forms

lastingly positive

Morphology

lastingly = lasting (transparent) = last + ing + ly

The adjective 'lasting' is converted to an adverb by the regular suffix '-ly', yielding 'in a lasting manner'.

Etymology

The word lastingly comes from the short word last, which means 'to continue' or 'to keep going'. Adding -ing and -ly makes it a word that tells how something is done, so lastingly means doing something 'in a way that continues for a long time'.