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Adjective: everlasting  `evur'lăsting
  1. Continuing forever or indefinitely
    "life everlasting"
    - ageless, aeonian, eonian [N. Amer], eternal, perpetual, unending, unceasing
     
  2. Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
    - arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, stark, staring, thoroughgoing, utter, unadulterated
Noun: everlasting  `evur'lăsting
  1. Any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or colour
    - everlasting flower

Derived forms: everlastings

See also: everlastingness, lasting, permanent, unmitigated

Type of: composite, composite plant

Part of: aster family, Asteraceae, Compositae, family Asteraceae, family Compositae

Encyclopedia: Everlasting