deathless
/ˈdɛθləs/
deathless adjective: undying or immortal.
Adjective
deathless (comparative more deathless, superlative most deathless)
- 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
- 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...
Forms of deathless
| comparative | more deathless |
|---|---|
| superlative | most 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
Source and license
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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