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everlasting

ever·last·ing/ˌɛvəɹˈlæstɪŋ/adjective, noun

everlasting is spelled E-V-E-R-L-A-S-T-I-N-G: 11 letters and 3 syllables (ever·last·ing). It appears 2.8 times per million words in written English, the 16,228th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, everlasting means “Lasting or enduring forever; endless, eternal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in everlasting?

Letters11: E-V-E-R-L-A-S-T-I-N-G
Syllables3: ever·last·ing
In writing2.8 times per million words; the 16,228th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is everlasting?

Everlasting appears 2.8 times per million words in written English, the 16,228th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce everlasting?

  • UK /ˌɛvəˈlɑːstɪŋ/
  • UK /-ˈlæst-/
  • US /ˌɛvəɹˈlæstɪŋ/

Everlasting has 3 syllables, split ever·last·ing in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-everlasting.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-everlasting.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with everlasting?

3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as everlasting from its last stressed vowel (/æstɪŋ/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of everlasting

  • more everlasting comparative
  • most everlasting superlative
  • ever-lasting
  • everlastings plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does everlasting mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Lasting or enduring forever; endless, eternal.

  2. 2

    Chiefly of a deity or other supernatural being: having always existed and will continue to exist forever; eternal.

  3. 3

    Synonym of sempiternal (“having infinite temporal duration, rather than outside time and thus lacking temporal duration altogether”).

  4. 4

    informalContinuing for a long period; eternal.

    this everlasting nonsense

  5. 5

    informalHappening all the time, especially to a tiresome extent; constant, incessant, unending.

  6. 6

    informalOf clothing or fabric: lasting a long time; very durable or hard-wearing.

  7. 7

    informalHaving flowers that retain their colour and form when dried.

  8. 8

    informalOf a plant or plant part: synonym of perennial (“active throughout the year, or having a life cycle of more than two growing seasons”).

noun

  1. 1

    Chiefly with a descriptive word: short for everlasting flower (“any of several plants, chiefly of the family Asteraceae (principally the tribe Gnaphalieae), having flowers that retain their colour and form when dried; also, a flower of such a plant”)

  2. 2

    archaicPreceded by the: someone or something that lasts forever, or that that has always existed and will continue to exist forever; an eternal, an immortal; specifically (Christianity), God.

  3. 3

    Synonym of lasting (“(uncountable) a durable, plain, woven fabric formerly used for making clothes and for the uppers of women's shoes; (countable) a quantity of such fabric”).

  4. 4

    obsoleteShort for everlasting trimming (“(uncountable) an embroidered edging used on underclothes; (countable) a quantity of such edging”)

adverb

  1. 1

    USarchaicinformalUsed as an intensifier: extremely, very.

  2. 2

    obsoleteIn an everlasting (adjective sense 1) manner; forever.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Everlasting in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchéternel (lasting or enduring forever – see also endless…), permanent (continuing for a long period – see also eternal)
Germanewig (lasting or enduring forever – see also endless…), endlos (continuing for a long period – see also eternal)
Portugueseeterno, interminável (lasting or enduring forever – see also endless…)
Spanishinmarcesible (lasting or enduring forever – see also endless…), eterno (chiefly of a deity or other supernatural being…)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does everlasting come from?

From Middle English ever-lasting (“(adjective) eternal, perpetual; constant; (adverb) eternally; (noun) eternity”), from ever (“at all times, always, constantly; eternally, perpetually; regularly; etc.”) + lasting (“continuing, lasting; eternal; etc.”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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