Substantial vs Everlasting - What's the difference?
substantial | everlasting |
Having to substance; actually existing; real; as, substantial life.
Not seeming or imaginary; not illusive; real; solid; true; veritable.
* "to do some substantial good, is the compensation for much incidental imperfection" - Cardinal Newman, The Rise and Progress of Universities
Corporeal; material; firm.
Having good substance; strong; stout; solid; firm; as, substantial cloth; a substantial fence or wall.
possessed of goods or an estate; moderately wealthy; responsible; as, a substantial freeholder.
Large in size, quantity, or value; as, a substantial amount of money; vast
Most important; essential.
Ample or full.
Significantly great.
Lasting or enduring forever; existing or continuing without end; immortal; eternal.
* (rfdate), (w) xx1. 33
Continuing indefinitely, or during a long period; perpetual; sometimes used, colloquially, as a strong intensive.
* (rfdate), (w) xvii. 8
* (rfdate), (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
(label) Existing with infinite temporal duration (as opposed to existence outside of time).
(label) Extremely.
*, chapter=10
, title= An everlasting flower.
* 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 313:
A cloth fabric for shoes, etc.
(Webster 1913)
English karmadharaya compounds
As adjectives the difference between substantial and everlasting
is that substantial is having to substance; actually existing; real; as, substantial life while everlasting is lasting or enduring forever; existing or continuing without end; immortal; eternal.As nouns the difference between substantial and everlasting
is that substantial is anything having substance; an essential part while everlasting is an everlasting flower.substantial
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A substantial amount of people in this buliding
Derived terms
* consubstantial * insubstantial * substantiality * substantially * substantialnesseverlasting
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The Everlasting God.
- I will give to thee, and to thy seed after theethe land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession.
- And heard thy everlasting yawn confess / The pains and penalties of idleness.
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 ) sempiternalAntonyms
* (of a short life) ephemeral * (existing or continuing without end) finite, limited, mortalDerived terms
* everlasting flower. * everlasting peaNoun
(en noun)- ‘It is true perhaps it is too late now for you to look like a rose; but you can always look like an everlasting .’