permanently

Examples

• All

• You can hurt your eyes permanently with contact lenses.

  Doctor Eye Health

• First, the president directed all federal agencies to permanently retain records related to classified human experiments.

  Academic text (1999)

• Losing weight and keeping it off permanently is very, very hard.

  KenDBerryMD

• And I worry about that being permanently changed for a lot of people.

• So it is closed permanently, not by choice.

• However, if you wish to stay, we can elect that this trial period is over, and you can stay permanently.

  Doctor Jekyll (2023)

• After multiple years in these countries, a growing number have permanently resettled in the United States.

  Academic text (2011)

• The boundaries between the different spaces are permanently maintained through distinct practices.

  Academic text (2008)

• I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.

• The account Elon Jet apparently has been permanently banned for breaking Twitter rules.

Synonyms

F

for good

vspermanently

237 2.8

Forever, not coming back to how things were before

is the same meaning expressed as a short everyday phrase

I

indefinitely

vspermanently

104 4.8

For a time with no set end

implies an unclear or open duration rather than definite forever

E

eternally

vspermanently

53 5.2

For all time without end

focuses on enduring unchanged state rather than abstract timelessness

P

perpetually

vspermanently

29 4.8

Happening all the time without stopping

refers to continuous repeated action rather than lasting unchanged forever

I

irrevocably

vspermanently

16 7.7

So that something cannot be changed or undone

focuses on long-lasting state rather than on inability to reverse change

I

in perpetuity

vspermanently

• Formal

16 7.8

A time that lasts forever

means the same endless duration but emphasizes lasting unchanged intent

P

perennially

vspermanently

6 5.4

Happens every year or for a long time

refers to indefinite unchanging duration rather than regular recurrence over time

E

enduringly

vspermanently

1 5.6

Continuing to exist or have effect for a long time

implies a permanent unchanged state rather than general long term persistence

E

everlastingly

vspermanently

1 7.4

In a way that lasts forever

is about lasting or intended to remain unchanged rather than endless continuity

L

lastingly

vspermanently

1 5.8

In a way that continues for a long time

stresses intended lasting forever rather than merely a long duration

Antonyms

T

temporarily

222 3.2

For a short time and not permanent

How Permanent

forever

∞ 1.0

permanently

218 2.9

temporarily

222 3.2

briefly

414 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology