lastingly
- adverb
- /ˈlæstɪŋli/
- The changes we made to the curriculum will lastingly improve students' learning outcomes.
Examples
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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
Happening all the time without stopping
A time that lasts forever
In a way that cannot be removed or forgotten
Happens every year or for a long time
Continuing to exist or have effect for a long time
In a way that lasts forever
In a way that lasts for a long time
In a way that lasts forever
Antonyms
How Long
Surface Forms
Morphology
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'.