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UK
/pəpˈɛtʃuːəl/
]
[ US /pɝˈpɛtʃuəɫ/ ]
[ US /pɝˈpɛtʃuəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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continuing forever or indefinitely
life everlasting
eternal truths
the unending bliss of heaven
the ageless themes of love and revenge
hell's perpetual fires -
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
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.