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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Man, again, has a certain aeonian life; possibly ranging somewhere about the period of seventy years assigned in the Psalms.

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

If the days of Genesis mean indefinite periods of aeonian duration, how is the seventh day of rest to be understood?

From Creation and Its Records by Baden-Powell, Baden Henry

That a thing must cease takes from it the joy of even an aeonian endurance—for its kind is mortal; it belongs to the nature of things that cannot live.

From A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare by MacDonald, George

His soul had moved amid similar evocations in some aeonian past, whence now the sand was being cleared away.

From Four Weird Tales by Blackwood, Algernon

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