everlastingly
- adverb
- /ˌɛvərˈlæstɪŋli/
- I would be so grateful, so everlastingly grateful... ...if, in future, you would ask my permission.
Examples
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What's so everlastingly neat about young rock stars?
Academic text (2007) -
The stars in the night sky seem to shine everlastingly, captivating anyone who gazes upon them.
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I can give you life everlastingly, if you wish it.
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It's burned everlastingly in my memory.
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Rather, eucharistic unity must exceed the borders of the Church, or it will bring us nothing everlastingly good.
Academic text (2002) -
Nikolai had disclosed the Ant Brotherhood to them but not the chief secret: the means by which all men would become everlastingly happy.
Blog text (4) -
So they must everlastingly try to make it all fit so that they never lose faith; the consequence (in their head) is ETERNAL anguish.
Blog text (19) -
I.e., Benedict would be not alive everlastingly in Heaven, but dead everywhere forevermore.
Blog text (20) -
"They resembled the wail of an everlastingly solitary siren, the sorrow in the purest of forms."
Fiction book (1995) -
It is important to see this, to find out for oneself how the self, the 'me', is perpetuating itself, how the 'me' is everlastingly thinking about virtue and trying to become virtuous, and establishing laws of morality for itself and for others.
Blog text (29)
Synonyms
For all time without end
Stays the same for all time
Without stopping for a very long time
For all time without end
Happening all the time without stopping
A time that lasts forever
Always from now on
Going on forever without any limit
Without stopping
Continues for all future time
In a way that does not stop
In a way that goes on for a very long time with no end in sight
Continuing to exist or have effect for a long time
For a very long time with no clear end
Without stopping for a long time
In a way that continues for a long time
For a very long time that never ends
Antonyms
How Long
Surface Forms
Morphology
everlastingly = everlasting (transparent) = ever + lasting + ly
Formed by adding the adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'everlasting'; the adverbial meaning 'in an everlasting manner / forever' is directly predictable.
Etymology
The word everlastingly comes from ever ('always') and last ('to continue'), with the ending -ly that makes it an adverb. So, everlastingly means doing something 'in a way that always continues' or forever.