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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
Walter Anderson

Meaning of "perpetual" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PERPETUAL

Via Old French from Latin perpetuālis universal, from perpes continuous, from per- (thoroughly) + petere to go towards.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PERPETUAL

perpetual  [pəˈpɛtjʊəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PERPETUAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Perpetual can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PERPETUAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of perpetual in the English dictionary

The first definition of perpetual in the dictionary is eternal; permanent. Other definition of perpetual is seemingly ceaseless because often repeated. Perpetual is also blooming throughout the growing season or year.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PERPETUAL


artefactual
ˌɑːrtɪˈfæktjʊəl
aspectual
æˈspɛktjʊəl
conceptual
kənˈsɛptjʊəl
conflictual
kənˈflɪktjʊəl
contextual
kənˈtɛkstjʊəl
contractual
kənˈtræktjʊəl
conventual
kənˈvɛntjʊəl
effectual
ɪˈfɛktjʊəl
habitual
həˈbɪtjʊəl
intertextual
ˌɪntəˈtekstjʊəl
mutuel
ˈmjuːtjʊəl
nonfactual
ˌnɒnˈfæktjʊəl
pari-mutuel
ˌpærɪˈmjuːtjʊəl
perceptual
pəˈsɛptjʊəl
punctual
ˈpʌŋktjʊəl
ritual
ˈrɪtjʊəl
spiritual
ˈspɪrɪtjʊəl
tactual
ˈtæktjʊəl
textual
ˈtɛkstjʊəl
unspiritual
ʌnˈspɪrɪtjʊəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PERPETUAL

perpetration
perpetrator
perpetuable
perpetual check
perpetual debenture
perpetual inventory
perpetual motion
perpetual motion of the first kind
perpetual motion of the second kind
perpetual spinach
perpetualism
perpetualist
perpetuality
perpetually
perpetuance
perpetuate
perpetuation
perpetuator
perpetuities
perpetuity

WORDS THAT END LIKE PERPETUAL

accentual
actual
artifactual
counterfactual
eventual
factual
ineffectual
instinctual
intellectual
Lords Spiritual
mutual
Negro spiritual
noncontractual
revictual
subtextual
the spiritual
unintellectual
victual
virtual
your actual

Synonyms and antonyms of perpetual in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PERPETUAL»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «perpetual» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of perpetual

Translation of «perpetual» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PERPETUAL

Find out the translation of perpetual to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of perpetual from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «perpetual» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

永恒的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

perpetuo
570 millions of speakers

English

perpetual
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सदा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

دائم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

вечный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

perpétuo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

চিরস্থায়ী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

perpétuel
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kekal
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

dauerhaft
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

永久の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

영구적인
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Terus-terusan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vĩnh viễn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நிரந்தர
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शाश्वत
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

daimi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

perpetuo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wieczyste
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вічний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

perpetuu
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αέναη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ewige
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

evig
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

evigvarende
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of perpetual

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PERPETUAL»

The term «perpetual» is very widely used and occupies the 17.590 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PERPETUAL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «perpetual» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «perpetual» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about perpetual

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10 QUOTES WITH «PERPETUAL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word perpetual.
1
Joseph Addison
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
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Shawn Amos
Men of my father's generation were perpetual hustlers, always on the make and always on the move.
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Walter Anderson
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
4
Adam Ant
My daughter's the greatest thing that's happened to me in my life and she turned me into a more responsible man, as opposed to just someone who's a perpetual teenager, thinking you're a man when you're not.
5
Walter Bagehot
A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.
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Jean Baudrillard
Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
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E. F. Benson
Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.
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Georges Bernanos
It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
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Nellie Bly
What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.
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William Cullen Bryant
The Parisian has his amusements as regularly as his meals, the theatre, music, the dance, a walk in the Tuilleries, a refection in the cafe, to which ladies resort as commonly as the other sex. perpetual business, perpetual labor, is a thing of which he seems to have no idea.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PERPETUAL»

Discover the use of perpetual in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to perpetual and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Perpetual Peace
This is an important work for those studying the idea of world peace and those interested in the writings of Immanuel Kant.
Immanuel Kant, 2007
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Perpetual Euphoria: On the Duty to Be Happy
In Perpetual Euphoria, Pascal Bruckner takes up these questions with all his unconventional wit, force, and brilliance, arguing that we might be happier if we simply abandoned our mad pursuit of happiness.
Pascal Bruckner, 2011
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Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay
Far from an unattainable utopian fantasy, this 1795 essay lays out the requirements for peace, including republican governments, freedom of movement for citizens, and-prophetically-the formation of a league of nations.
Immanuel Kant, 2010
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Ibn Taymiyya's Theodicy of Perpetual Optimism
This comprehensive study of Muslim jurist Ibn Taymiyya's (d. 1328) theodicy of perpetual optimism exposits and analyses his writings on God's justice and wise purpose, divine determination and human agency, the problem of evil, and juristic ...
Jon Hoover, 2007
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Perpetual Contact: Mobile Communication, Private Talk, ...
This 2002 book studies the impact of the mobile phone on contemporary society.
James E. Katz, Mark Aakhus, 2002
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Perpetual War: Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence
Arguing that intellectuals must critique bellicose U.S. nationalism, Bruce Robbins advocates cosmopolitanism in its traditional sense, as an elevation of loyalty to the good of humanity as a whole over loyalty to one's own nation.
Bruce Robbins, 2012
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Perpetual Motion: The History of an Obsession
An illustrated overview of perpetual motion machines and their inventors.
Arthur W. J. G. Ord-Hume, 2006
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Perpetual Peace: Essays on Kant's Cosmopolitan Ideal
The authors argue for the continued theoretical and practical relevance of the cosmopolitan ideals of Kant's essay "Toward Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch."
James Bohman, Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, 1997
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Toward Perpetual Peace and Other Writings on Politics, ...
This volume contains a collection of Kant's writings on international relations theory and political philosophy, translated and accompanied by essays.
Immanuel Kant, Pauline Kleingeld, Allen W. Wood, 2006
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Perpetual Dilemma: Jewish Religion in the Jewish State
Describes and evaluates the problem of traditional Judaism in relation to the Jewish state, a problem with which the state of Israel has been concerned from the day of its creation in 1948.
S. Zalman Abramov, 1976

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PERPETUAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term perpetual is used in the context of the following news items.
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Perpetual Loyal leads as Sydney Gold Coast fleet parks
While Anthony Bell (Perpetual Loyal) continues to lead Peter Harburg's Black Jack a merry dance for line and overall honours in the 2015 Land ... «My Sailing, Jul 15»
2
Insider Buying: Perpetual Energy Director Buys C$33824.00 in …
Perpetual Energy logo Perpetual Energy (TSE:PMT) Director Clayton H. Riddell bought 40,000 shares of the stock in a transaction dated ... «sleekmoney, Jul 15»
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Insider Buying: Perpetual Energy Director Clayton H. Riddell Buys …
Perpetual Energy logo Perpetual Energy (TSE:PMT) Director Clayton H. Riddell bought 40,000 shares of the stock in a transaction dated ... «Watch List News, Jul 15»
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Padma—A Perpetual Prisoner?
The tide of police excess and impunity in Chhattisgarh does not seem to end. The tale of Bellala Padma, a political prisoner in Chhattisgarh ... «Economic and Political Weekly, Jul 15»
5
The perpetual financial crisis of UK higher education
This may seem an odd claim, since universities appear to have higher incomes than ever, and are sitting on vast cash reserves. But this ... «Times Higher Education, Jul 15»
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NCAA: Letran still on top after beating Perpetual
In the match of the undefeated teams, Letran roughhoused Perpetual, 79-71, to lay claim on NCAA's top spot with the only undefeated record in ... «Inquirer.net, Jul 15»
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Franciscan sister to profess perpetual vows in Frankfort
FRANKFORT – Sr. Cristina Soyao will make a public profession of Perpetual Vows as a member of the Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Heart ... «The Herald-News, Jul 15»
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Comcast provides Ethernet link to Perpetual Storage facility
Comcast Business has won a contract from secure digital and microform data storage service provider Perpetual Storage to provide Ethernet ... «Telecompaper, Jul 15»
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Perpetual Energy PT Lowered to C$0.75 at CIBC (PMT)
Perpetual Energy Inc. logo Perpetual Energy (TSE:PMT) had its price target cut by CIBC from C$1.00 to C$0.75 in a research note issued to ... «WKRB News, Jul 15»
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Aspen Declares Dividends on Ordinary Shares and Perpetual
Aspen's Board of Directors also declared a dividend on its 7.401% Perpetual Non-Cumulative Preference Shares with a $25 liquidation ... «MarketWatch, Jul 15»

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