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lastingadjective having an existence or validity that does not change or diminishone of the few books published last year that is likely to have lasting significance abiding, ageless, continuing, dateless, enduring, eternal, everlasting, immortal, imperishable, ongoing, perennial, perpetual, timeless, undying ceaseless, endless, permanentchangeless, constant, stable, stationary, steady, unchanging, unvarying antiquated, archaic, dated, obsolete, outdated, outmoded, out-of-date, outworn, passé lastingverbpresent participle of lastto continue to operate or to meet one's needswe were lucky that the batteries lasted until we could get to the store to buy more holding out, holding up, keeping up, prevailing, surviving bearing up, carrying on, coping, enduring, faring, getting along, getting by, getting on, going, hanging in, making out, managing, perseveringabiding, continuing, drawing out, hanging on, holding on, lingering, persisting, remaining, running on, stretching failing, fizzling, giving out, going out, petering (out), running out breaking, breaking down, collapsing, conking (out), crashing, cutting out, dying, expiring, stalling, stoppingrunning down, waning to remain indefinitely in existence or in the same statethis heavy drought has lasted all summer abiding, biding, continuing, enduring, holding on, holding up, keeping up, perduring, persisting, remaining, running on lingering, staying, sticking around, tarryingcarrying through, prevailing, surviving ceasing, closing, concluding, desisting, discontinuing, dying, ending, expiring, finishing, lapsing, leaving off, passing, quitting, stopping, terminating, winding up abating, dying (down), ebbing, letting up, moderating, subsiding, waning adj.lasting, permanent, durable, stable mean enduring for so long as to seem fixed or established.lasting implies a capacity to continue indefinitely.a book that left a lasting impression on me permanent adds usually the implication of being designed or planned to stand or continue indefinitely.permanent living arrangements durable implies power to resist destructive agencies.durable fabrics stable implies lastingness because of resistance to being overturned or displaced.a stable government in the 13th century |