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everliving

everliving adjective: which lives or continues forever; immortal; everlasting.

Adjective

everliving (not comparable)

  1. Which lives or continues forever; immortal; everlasting.
    Synonyms:
    undying
  2. (broadly) Which will never be forgotten.
    Synonyms:
    unforgettable
  3. Of or relating to immortality.
    • ...a priest of the eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life1916, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  4. (slang) Generic intensifier.
    • Dewey shrinks back, thinking, This guy's about to come across this desk, beat the everliving shit out of me.2003, James Hime, The Night of the Dance
    • What the holy everliving fuck was he talking about?2002, Michael Vaughn, (Please provide the book title or journal name)

Noun

everliving (uncountable)

  1. That which is living forever.
    • In fact, the everliving differs from the eternal.1995, Brian Copenhaver, Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius in a New English Translation, with Notes and Introduction
    • Be aware you are, and discover the everliving.1974, Osho, The Book of the Secrets: Discourses on Vigyana Bhairava Tantra

Examples of everliving in a sentence

  • Fight it—fight it with all my might—and I was getting the everliving hell beaten out of me!1997, Susan Powter, Sober...and Staying That Way:
  • Lucifer and his followers among the Everliving manifested the beauty of God.2000, Alfred Hamilton, Toadstool Bouquet: Short Fiction by Alfred Hamilton:

Synonyms of everliving

Forms of everliving

alternative formever-living

Origin of everliving

From ever + living.

Questions about everliving

What does everliving mean?
Everliving means which lives or continues forever; immortal; everlasting.
How do you use everliving in a sentence?
Fight it—fight it with all my might—and I was getting the everliving hell beaten out of me!
What part of speech is everliving?
Everliving can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near everliving in the dictionary

  1. Everleigh
  2. Everleighs
  3. Everley
  4. Everleys
  5. everlive
  6. everliving
  7. everlong
  8. everloving
  9. everlovings
  10. Everly
  11. Everlys

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