has particulars: acroclinium roseum, pink-and-white everlasting, pink paper daisy, anaphalis margaritacea, cottonweed, pearly everlasting, cudweed, golden everlasting, helichrysum bracteatum, strawflower, yellow paper daisy, strawflower, cascade everlasting, helichrysum secundiflorum, ozothamnus secundiflorus, helipterum manglesii, rhodanthe, rhodanthe manglesii, swan river everlasting, immortelle, xeranthemum annuum

Adjective everlasting has 2 senses

everlasting(s = adj.all) aeonian, ageless, eonian, eternal, perpetual, unceasing, unending - continuing forever or indefinitely; "the ageless themes of love and revenge"; "eternal truths"; "life everlasting"; "hell's perpetual fires"; "the unending bliss of heaven"

Derived form noun everlastingness₁

everlasting(s = adj.all) arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter - without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth"

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CIDE DICTIONARY

everlasting, a.

Lasting or enduring forever; exsisting or continuing without end; immortal; eternal. Gen. xx1. 33. [1913 Webster]
Continuing indefinitely, or during a long period; perpetual; sometimes used, colloquially, as a strong intensive; as, this everlasting nonsence. [1913 Webster]
"I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee . . . the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession." [1913 Webster]

"And heard thy everlasting yawn confess
The pains and penalties of idleness."

"Whether we shall meet again I know not;
Therefore our everlasting farewell take;
Forever, and forever farewell, Cassius." [1913 Webster]

Everlasting flower. Sane as Everlasting, n., 3. -- Everlasting pea, an ornamental plant (Lathyrus latifolius) related to the pea; -- so called because it is perennial.

Syn. -- Eternal; immortal, interminable; endless; never-ending; infinite; unceasing; uninterrupted; continual; unintermitted; incessant.

everlasting, n.

Eternal duration, past or future; eternity. [1913 Webster]
"From everlasting to everlasting, thou art God." [1913 Webster]
(With the definite article) The Eternal Being; God. [1913 Webster]
A plant whose flowers may be dried without losing their form or color, as, the pearly everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea), the immortelle (Xeranthemum anuum) of the French, the cudweeds, etc. [1913 Webster]
A cloth fabric for shoes, etc. See Lasting. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

everlasting, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 lasting for ever.
2 lasting for a long time, esp. so as to become unwelcome.
3 (of flowers) keeping their shape and colour when dried.
--n.
1 eternity.
2 = IMMORTELLE.

Derivative

everlastingly adv. everlastingness n.

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DEVIL DICTIONARY

everlasting

adj. Lasting forever. It is with no small diffidence that I venture to offer this brief and elementary definition, for I am not unaware of the existence of a bulky volume by a sometime Bishop of Worcester, entitled, _A Partial Definition of the Word "Everlasting," as Used in the Authorized Version of the Holy Scriptures_. His book was once esteemed of great authority in the Anglican Church, and is still, I understand, studied with pleasure to the mind and profit of the soul.

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THESAURUS

everlasting

ageless, all-knowing, all-powerful, all-seeing, all-wise, almighty, amaranthine, blah, boundless, broken-record, ceaseless, changeless, coeternal, constant, continual, continuous, creating, creative, dateless, deathless, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, embalmed, endless, eternal, eternally the same, eterne, ever-being, ever-durable, ever-during, ever-fresh, everliving, fadeless, frozen, glorious, good, hallowed, harping, highest, holy, humdrum, immemorial, immortal, immutable, imperishable, incessant, incorruptible, indestructible, infinite, interminable, invariable, jog-trot, just, lasting, limitless, long-winded, loving, luminous, majestic, making, merciful, monotonous, never-ceasing, never-dying, never-ending, nonstop, nonterminating, nonterminous, numinous, olamic, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, one, perdurable, permanent, perpetual, prolix, radiant, sacred, sempiternal, shaping, singsong, sovereign, steady, supreme, tedious, termless, timeless, treadmill, ubiquitous, unbounded, unceasing, unchanging, undefined, undying, unending, uneventful, unfading, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unlimited, unremitting, unvarying, without end

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ROGET THESAURUS

everlasting

Perpetuity

N perpetuity, eternity, everness, aye, sempiternity, immortality, athanasia, interminability, agelessness, everlastingness, perpetuation, continued existence, uninterrupted existence, perennity, permanence (durability), perpetual, eternal, everduring, everlasting, ever-living, ever- flowing, continual, sempiternal, coeternal, endless, unending, ceaseless, incessant, uninterrupted, indesinent, unceasing, endless, unending, interminable, having no end, unfading, evergreen, amaranthine, neverending, never-dying, never-fading, deathless, immortal, undying, imperishable, perpetually, always, ever, evermore, aye, for ever, for aye, till the end of the universe, forevermore, forever and a day, for ever and ever, in all ages, from age to age, without end, world without end, time without end, in secula seculorum, to the end of time, to the crack of doom, to the 'last syllable of recorded time', till doomsday, constantly, esto perpetuum, labitur et labetur in omne volubilis oevum, but thou shall flourish in immortal youth, Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought, her immortal part with angels lives, ohne Rast ora e sempre.

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