[ UK /pəpˈɛt‍ʃuːə‍l/ ]
[ US /pɝˈpɛtʃuəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. continuing forever or indefinitely
    life everlasting
    eternal truths
    the unending bliss of heaven
    the ageless themes of love and revenge
    hell's perpetual fires
  2. uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing
    the ceaseless thunder of surf
    the perpetual struggle to maintain standards in a democracy
    man's unceasing warfare with drought and isolation
    night and day we live with the incessant noise of the city
    in constant pain
    unremitting demands of hunger
    the never-ending search for happiness
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How To Use perpetual In A Sentence

  • I ejaculated mentally , " you deserve perpetual isolation from your species for your churlish inhospitality.
  • Edward is a perpetual student, it would seem, born in the year of the rooster!
  • Sometime snooker world champion, perpetually in the tabloids for his substance-assisted high jinks, he's the quintessence of Essex wide-boy.
  • Gray-brown stratus clouds in the upper atmosphere flew at high speed as though the planet was racked by a perpetual storm.
  • First, the most obvious example is the Internet bubble where the majority of enterprises have no economic value whatsoever without perpetual financing.
  • Of those roses classes observed, hybrid teas, grandifloras, hybrid perpetuals, teas and chinas appear to be most affected, while floribundas, rugosas and polyanthas appear to be least affected.
  • And it is the treachery of his appetite which inveigles him into the mischief, which cheats, and abuses, and by deceitful overtures trapans him into a perpetual calamity. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
  • Unleashed, she is a maenad: not crabby but sardonic and perpetually restless, she scrambles over the stage, squaring up to several men at a time; she drinks from a hip flask; she wees; she smokes – and she fumes. The Taming of the Shrew; The Trial of Ubu; Our New Girl – review
  • He dumped the pig of metal on the second desk, where Aletha sat with her perpetual loose-leafed volumes before her. Sand Doom
  • The footwell was perpetually swamped now, my forearms were pumped from choking the oars in a death grip, and dime-size blisters had begun to well up under the calluses on my palms.
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