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Indelible vs Everlasting - What's the difference?

indelible | everlasting |

As adjectives the difference between indelible and everlasting

is that indelible is having the quality of being difficult to delete, remove, wash away, blot out, or efface while everlasting is lasting or enduring forever; existing or continuing without end; immortal; eternal.

As a noun everlasting is

an everlasting flower.

indelible

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • having the quality of being difficult to delete, remove, wash away, blot out, or efface
    • This ink spot on the contract is indelible .
    This stain on my shirt is indelible .
  • incapable of being canceled, lost, or forgotten
    • That horrible story just might make an indelible impression on the memory.
  • * 2014 , (Ruzwana Bashir), " The untold story of how a culture of shame perpetuates abuse. I know, I was a victim", The Guardian , 29 August 2014:
    • During our investigation it became clear that for three decades many other women had suffered at the hands of our abuser, but they had refused to testify against him because of the indelible stigma it would bring.
  • incapable of being annulled
  • * Sprat
    • They are endued with indelible power from above.

    Related terms

    * indelibility * indelibly

    Synonyms

    * unerasable

    Antonyms

    * delible * (difficult to delete) uninsertable

    everlasting

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Lasting or enduring forever; existing or continuing without end; immortal; eternal.
  • * (rfdate), (w) xx1. 33
    • The Everlasting God.
  • Continuing indefinitely, or during a long period; perpetual; sometimes used, colloquially, as a strong intensive.
  • * (rfdate), (w) xvii. 8
    • I will give to thee, and to thy seed after theethe land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession.
  • * (rfdate), (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
    • And heard thy everlasting yawn confess / The pains and penalties of idleness.
  • (label) Existing with infinite temporal duration (as opposed to existence outside of time).
  • (label) Extremely.
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    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=The Jones man was looking at her hard. Now he reached into the hatch of his vest and fetched out a couple of cigars, everlasting big ones, with gilt bands on them.}}

    Usage notes

    * Everlasting, Eternal. Eternal denotes (when taken strictly) without beginning or end of duration; everlasting is sometimes used in our version of the Scriptures in the sense of eternal, but in modern usage is confined to the future, and implies no intermission as well as no end. *: Whether we shall meet again I know not; Therefore our everlasting farewell take; Forever, and forever farewell, Cassius. -(William Shakespeare)

    Synonyms

    * eternal, immortal, interminable, endless, never-ending, infinite, unlimited, unceasing, uninterrupted, continual, unintermitted, incessant * (existing with infinite temporal duration ) sempiternal

    Antonyms

    * (of a short life) ephemeral * (existing or continuing without end) finite, limited, mortal

    Derived terms

    * everlasting flower. * everlasting pea

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An everlasting flower.
  • * 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 313:
    • ‘It is true perhaps it is too late now for you to look like a rose; but you can always look like an everlasting .’
  • A cloth fabric for shoes, etc.
    • (Webster 1913) English karmadharaya compounds