lasting (English) - Vocabulary & GRE App

lasting

EN • English

//ˈlɑːstɪŋ//

Definitions & Usage

adjective

Persisting for an extended period of time.

Example: “After World War I it was hoped that a lasting peace had been achieved. It hadn’t.”

Example: “I was taken to the theatre for the first time when I was six years old, and the experience made a lasting impression on me.”

Synonyms:

abiding durable chronic continuate diuturnal durative endurable enduring

adjective

(obsolete) Persisting forever.

Synonyms:

eternal everlasting ageful agelong amaranthine celestial endless enduring

verb

present participle and gerund of last

noun

(clothing, historical) In full lasting cloth: a durable, plain woven fabric formerly used for making clothes and for the uppers of women's shoes.

Synonyms:

everlasting

noun

(shoemaking) The act or process of shaping footwear on a last.

noun

(obsolete) The action or state of persisting; the time during which something or someone persists.

Example: “1598, I. D. (possibly John Dee) (translator), Aristotles Politiques, or Discourses of Gouernment, London: Adam Islip, Chapter 12, p. 334, But all things that haue beginning, must come to an end, and whatsoeuer groweth, must likewise deminish, being subiect to corruption and change, according to the time appointed vnto it by the course of Nature, as is seene by experience in plants, and in wights, which haue their ages and lastings certaine and determined.”

Synonyms:

continuance duration endurance

Notable Literary & Historical Quotes

“hasty wroth, and heedlesse hazardry Doe breede repentaunce late, and lasting infamy.”

— 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 249:

“Look ye, Marriage is a lasting thing—if it were for six Months only, I might venture upon thee—but for all days of my Life—mercy upon me […]”

— 1706, Susanna Centlivre, Love at a Venture, London: John Chantry, act V, page 63:

“I knew that nought was lasting, but now even Change grows too changeable, without being new:”

— 1823 August 29, [Lord Byron], Don Juan. Cantos IX.—X.—and XI., London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John Hunt, […], →OCLC, canto XI, (please specify the stanza number):