lasting
lasting
Definition
last·ing (las′tiŋ)
adjective
that lasts a long time; enduring; durable a lasting peace
noun
- a strong twilled cloth
- Archaic endurance
last′·ingly adverb
last′·ing·ness noun
lasting
Synonyms
lasting
Usage Examples
Preposition: about
- minute: Spread over ten exercises lasting about 5 minutes each.
- hour: Outline of syllabus There will be 11 sessions lasting about 3 hours.
Preposition: around
- minute: With each level only lasting around ten minutes is doesn't cause much of a problem.
- month: This could be over one or more waves, each lasting around 3 months.
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- create: Literary experimentation has often proved most influential when itâs breaking down barriers, rather than creating anything particularly lasting or even memorable.
Modifies a noun
- impression: The trip also left a lasting impression on Laura Wyn Jones.
- legacy: Find out more about the lasting legacy the 2012 London Games could leave behind.
- friendship: I have met some wonderful people during my holidays over the years, some of them having turned into lasting friendships.
- peace: Tom has to spend a time in exile, away from home, in order to bring about a lasting peace.
- memorial: Char's Fund will be the means by which we will build a lasting memorial to our daughter.
- memento: A drumming soldier would look great in any pageboy's bedroom and a solid pewter tankard is a lasting memento.
Modifying Another Word
- long: A high quality, long lasting, durable alkaline battery.
- longer: Steel is longer lasting, won't potentially leach chemicals into the water and you can boil as little as you want.
- truly: Are we not capable of demonstrating our peaceful intentions by applying all our abilities and our ingenuity to achieving a truly lasting stability?
- ever: Like you get up to heaven and they're like " you didn't know how ever lasting life works?
- usually: They also have volunteer placements in a more ad hoc manner usually lasting between 6-8 weeks.
- only: With each level only lasting around ten minutes is doesn't cause much of a problem.
Used with adjective complement
- scan: The 1mm scan lasted 18 minutes, and each successive scan took less time, with the 6mm scan lasting 3 minutes.
Preposition: for
lasting Quotes
Exegi monumentum, aere perennius. I have completed a memorial more lasting than bronze.
Browse dictionary entries near lasting
- last word
- last will and testament
- Last Supper
- last straw
- last rites
- last quarter
- last notice day
- last name
- last mile
- Last Judgment
- lastly
- lat
- LATA
- Latakia
- latch
- latch onto
- latchet
- latchkey
- latchstring
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