lasting

Meanings

Plural: lastings

Verb

• persist for a specified period of time
• continue to live through hardship or adversity
• present participle and gerund of last

Adjective

• continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place
• retained; not shed

Adjective Satellite

• existing for a long time
  • "a long-lasting friendship"
• lasting a long time without change
  • "a lasting relationship"

Adj

• Persisting for an extended period of time.
• Persisting forever.

Noun

• In full lasting cloth: a durable, plain woven fabric formerly used for making clothes and for the uppers of women's shoes.
• The act or process of shaping footwear on a last.
• The action or state of persisting; the time during which something or someone persists.

Synonyms

abiding, ageful, agelong, amaranthine, chronic, continuance, continuate, diuturnal, durable, duration, durative, endless, endurance, endure, enduring, eternal, eterne, everduring, evergreen, everlasting, eviternal, extending, forever, go, hold out, hold up, imperishable, indesinent, last, lasting, live, live on, long-drawn-out, long-lasting, long-lived, longevous, longsome, neverending, perdurable, perennial, permanent, perpetual, perpetuate, persistent, prolonged, protracted, sempiternal, survive, timeless, undeadly, undying, unending

Antonyms

caducous, dureless, ephemeral, impermanent, unlasting

Related Words

lastingly, lastingness

Anagrams of lasting