lasting adj

1 continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place; "permanent secretary to the president"; "permanent address"; "literature of permanent value" [syn: permanent] [ant: impermanent]

2 existing for a long time; "hopes for a durable peace"; "a long-lasting friendship" [syn: durable, long-lasting, long-lived]

3 retained; not shed; "persistent leaves remain attached past maturity"; "the persistent gills of fishes" [syn: persistent] [ant: caducous]

4 lasting a long time without change; "a lasting relationship"

5 lasting for an indefinitely long period of time [syn: everlasting, eternal, eonian, aeonian]

English

Adjective

lasting

1. Persisting for an extended period of time.

   After World War One it was hoped that a lasting peace had been achieved. It hadn't.

Translations

abiding, adamantine, age-long, aged, alive, ancient, antique, assiduous, bulky, cartilaginous, changeless, chewy, chronic, chronological, cohesive, constant, continual, continuing, continuous, coriaceous, dense, diligent, diuturnal, dogged, drawn-out, durable, durational, durative, eidetic, endless, enduring, eternal, evergreen, everlasting, extended, faithful, fibrous, firm, fixed, fresh, frozen, green, gristly, hard, hardy, heavy, immobile, immutable, inalterable, incessant, incommutable, inconvertible, indefatigable, indefeasible, indelible, indissoluble, indomitable, industrious, inert, insistent, insusceptible of change, intact, interminable, intransient, intransmutable, invariable, inveterate, invincible, inviolate, irretrievable, irreversible, irrevocable, kept in remembrance, languishing, leatherlike, leathery, lengthened, lingering, long, long-continuing, long-drawn, long-drawn-out, long-lasting, long-lived, long-pending, long-standing, long-term, long-winded, longeval, longevous, loyal, macrobiotic, marathon, massive, never-tiring, noble, nonreturnable, nonreversible, obstinate, of long duration, of long standing, old, overlong, patient, patient as Job, perdurable, perduring, perennial, permanent, perpetual, perseverant, persevering, persistent, persisting, pertinacious, plodding, plugging, preoccupied, prolonged, protracted, quiescent, rapt, recalled, recollected, relentless, remaining, remembered, resistant, resolute, retained, reverseless, rigid, ropy, rugged, sedulous, sempervirent, sempiternal, sinewy, single-minded, sleepless, slogging, solid, sound, spun-out, stable, static, stationary, staying, steadfast, steady, stiff, stout, stretched-out, stringy, strong, stubborn, sturdy, sustained, temporal, tenacious, tireless, torpid, tough, tough as leather, unabating, unalterable, unalterative, unaltered, unceasing, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unchecked, unconquerable, undaunted, undeflectable, undestroyed, undeviating, undiscouraged, undrooping, undying, unfading, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflinching, unforgotten, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unmodifiable, unnodding, unrelaxing, unrelenting, unremitting, unrestorable, unreturnable, unshifting, unsleeping, unsusceptible, unswerving, untiring, unvariable, unvaried, unvarying, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, unyielding, utterly attentive, vigorous, viscid, vital, vivid, weariless, well-built, well-constructed, well-founded, well-grounded, well-made, wiry