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deathless

/ˈdɛθləs/

deathless adjective: undying or immortal.

Adjective

deathless (comparative more deathless, superlative most deathless)

  1. Undying or immortal.
    • Athena For mighty is the potency of the revered Erinyes both with the deathless high gods and with the powers of the world below; […]1926, Herbert Weir Smyth, “Eumenides”, in Aeschylus, with an English translation, volume II, page 363
    • Like the deathless vampire who must repeat its stalk-and-kill cycle in order to satisfy a recurring blood hunger, the earliest film horrors cannibalized its literary ancestry again and again.2005, Tony Magistrale, Abject Terrors: Surveying the Modern and Postmodern Horror Film
  2. (usually) Guaranteed not to be lost or forgotten due to its importance or conspicuous excellence.
    • Her novels are filled with unforgettable characters and deathless prose.
    • "We cannot do less than call it Ixodes Maloni. The very small inconvenience of being bitten, my young friend, cannot, I am sure, weigh with you as against the glorious privilege of having your name inscribed in the deathless roll of zoology."1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

deathless meaning in Hindi, Malayalam and Sanskrit

deathless in Hindi

immortal
अमर amar

deathless in Malayalam

ചിരഞ്ജീവിയായ, സ്ഥായിയായ, അനശ്വരമായ, നാശമില്ലാത്ത

deathless in Sanskrit

immortal
अमृत amṛta

Examples of deathless in a sentence

  • Finally, one voice in England proclaimed him a deathless dramatist and portrayer of character (Morgann) (<422).2000, Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 516:
  • A deathless line like “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”?2026 July 5, David Smith, “The strangest show on earth: lightning, imperial hubris and a boring tour of Trump’s rhetorical back alleys”, in...

All 10 example sentences with deathless

Forms of deathless

comparativemore deathless
superlativemost deathless

Origin of deathless

From death + -less.

Words formed from deathless

Questions about deathless

What does deathless mean?
Deathless means undying or immortal.
What is deathless in Hindi?
Deathless in Hindi is अमर (amar). See Deathless meaning in Hindi.
How do you use deathless in a sentence?
Finally, one voice in England proclaimed him a deathless dramatist and portrayer of character (Morgann) (<422).
What part of speech is deathless?
Deathless is an adjective.
How do you pronounce deathless?
Deathless is pronounced /ˈdɛθləs/.

Words near deathless in the dictionary

  1. deathism
  2. deathist
  3. deathists
  4. deathiversaries
  5. deathiversary
  6. deathless
  7. deathlessly
  8. deathlessness
  9. deathlessnesses
  10. deathlier
  11. deathliest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deathless (page history and authors); deathless (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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