Antonyms for perpetual
pərˈpɛtʃ u əlper·pet·u·al

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1. perpetual

   Continuous describes that which is absolutely without pause or break; continual, that which often intermits, but as regularly begins again. A continuous beach is exposed to the continual beating of the waves. A similar distinction is made between incessant and ceaseless. The incessant discharge of firearms makes the ceaseless roar of battle. Constant is sometimes used in the sense of continual; but its chief uses are mental and moral.

   Synonyms:
   ceaseless, constant, continual, continuous, incessant, invariable, regular, unbroken, unceasing, uninterrupted, unremitting, unvarying

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1. perpetual

   Antonyms:
   inconstant, periodic, recurrent, temporary, transient, falling, exhaustible, occasional, momentary, casual

   Synonyms:
   constant, unceasing, endless, eternal, everlasting, unfailing, perennial, continual, enduring, incessant, uninterrupted

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1. ageless, aeonian, eonian, eternal, everlasting, perpetual, unending, unceasingadjective

   continuing forever or indefinitely

   "the ageless themes of love and revenge"; "eternal truths"; "life everlasting"; "hell's perpetual fires"; "the unending bliss of heaven"

   Antonyms:
   discontinuous, noncontinuous, temporary, impermanent

   Synonyms:
   everlasting, eonian, sodding(a), utter(a), thoroughgoing(a), double-dyed(a), interminable, complete(a), ageless, unceasing, staring(a), unremitting, gross(a), incessant, unending, arrant(a), stark(a), ceaseless, consummate(a), pure(a), everlasting(a), unadulterated, constant, aeonian, perfect(a), never-ending, endless, eternal

2. ceaseless, constant, incessant, never-ending, perpetual, unceasing, unremittingadjective

   uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing

   "the ceaseless thunder of surf"; "in constant pain"; "night and day we live with the incessant noise of the city"; "the never-ending search for happiness"; "the perpetual struggle to maintain standards in a democracy"; "man's unceasing warfare with drought and isolation"; "unremitting demands of hunger"

   Antonyms:
   discontinuous, temporary, impermanent, noncontinuous

   Synonyms:
   incessant, unvarying, eonian, changeless, unending, everlasting, aeonian, invariant, unceasing, unremitting, constant, never-ending, eternal, ageless, ceaseless

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1. perpetualadjective

   Synonyms:
   everlasting

How to use perpetual in a sentence?

1. Roy Boyd:

   Tens of thousands of illegal aliens enter Texas every day. Our communities along the border are overrun with criminal aliens. The bodies of illegal aliens abandoned by their smugglers are found every week throughout South Texas, threats and violent actions of cartels have caused landowners and homeowners to abandon the property they worked all of their lives for. Texans along the border live in perpetual crisis as a result of the Administration’s open border policy.

2. Orison Swett Marden:

   If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.

3. Thomas Hobbes:

   There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

4. George Dennison Prentice:

   What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

5. Jennifer Emmolo:

   We love that students can swing their feet back and forth ... and be in perpetual motion and can do that without bothering anyone else.

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