aeonian

[ee-oh-nee-uhn] / iˈoʊ ni ən /

ADJECTIVE

continual

Synonyms

STRONGEST

around-the-clock ceaseless continuous endless enduring frequent interminable perpetual persistent recurrent relentless repeated steady unbroken unceasing unending uninterrupted unremitting

WEAK

connected consecutive dateless eternal everlasting oft-repeated permanent persisting regular repetitive running staying timeless unchanging unfailing unflagging unvarying unwaning

Antonyms

STRONGEST

bounded broken ceasing completed discontinuous ending finished infrequent intermittent interrupted irregular occasional sporadic stopping terminable transient

WEAK

checked halting inconstant temporary

ADJECTIVE

round-the-clock

Synonyms

STRONGEST

around-the-clock constant continuous endless incessant interminable nonstop ongoing perpetual relentless unbroken unending uninterrupted

WEAK

ceaseless connected consecutive dateless enduring eternal everlasting frequent oft-repeated permanent persistent persisting recurrent regular repeated repetitive running staying steady timeless unceasing unchanging unfailing unflagging unremitting unvarying unwaning

Antonyms

STRONGEST

bounded broken ceasing completed discontinuous ending finished incontinuous intermittent interrupted stopping terminable terminating transient

ADJECTIVE

unremitting

Synonyms

STRONGEST

ceaseless continuous enduring eternal incessant ongoing persistent recurrent relentless unceasing unending unflagging

WEAK

around-the-clock connected consecutive constant dateless endless everlasting frequent interminable nonstop oft-repeated permanent perpetual persisting regular repeated repetitive round-the-clock running staying steady timeless unbroken unchanging unfailing uninterrupted unvarying unwaning

Antonyms

STRONGEST

ceasing changing completed discontinuous ending finished infrequent intermittent interrupted stopping transient

Example Sentences

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For we miss to hear the fairy tale of time, the aeonian chant radiant with light and color which the spirit prolongs.

From AE in the Irish Theosophist by Russell, George William

What was meant by the aeonian punishments in the next world?

From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by De Quincey, Thomas

Among trees, in like manner, the oak, the cedar, the yew, are notoriously of very slow growth, and their aeonian period is unusually long as regards the individual.

From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by De Quincey, Thomas

B. But if it be an excess of blindness which can overlook the aeonian differences amongst even neutral entities, much deeper is that blindness which overlooks the separate tendencies of things evil and things good.

From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by De Quincey, Thomas

Tennyson, on the other hand, was already finding material for poetry in the world as seen through microscope and telescope, and as developed through "aeonian" processes of evolution.

From Alfred Tennyson by Lang, Andrew

aeonian

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