timeless
timeless adjective: eternal.
Adjective
timeless (comparative more timeless, superlative most timeless)
- Eternal.
- When Worlds, that count his Circles now, unhing’d,
(Fate the loud Signal sounding) headlong rush
To timeless Night and Chaos, whence they rose.c. 1743, Edward Young, “Night 2: On Time, Death, and Friendship”, in The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality
- Synonyms:
- eternal
- When Worlds, that count his Circles now, unhing’d,
- Not affected by time; ageless.
- Synonyms:
- ageless
- Done at an improper time; unseasonable; untimely.
- Must I behold thy timeless, cruel death?c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, act V, scene 4
- The lamp of day is quench’d beneath the deep,
And soft approach the balmy hours of sleep:
Nor fits it to prolong the heav’nly feast
Timeless, indecent, but retire to rest.1725, Alexander, transl. Pope, The Odyssey of Homer, book 3, London: Bernard Lintot, translation of The Odyssey by Homer, page 143, lines 427–430
- Synonyms:
- ill-timed
- Not decreasing over time in quality and appeal.
- The cave carvings have a timeless beauty.
- Synonyms:
- undiminishable, unfading
- Without a time limit; untimed.
- a timeless cricket match
- Outside of time; extratemporal.
Noun
timeless
- A gene encoding an essential protein that regulates circadian rhythm, normally written in italics: timeless.
timeless meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Telugu
timeless in Hindi
- not decreasing over time in quality and appeal
- कालातीत kālātīt
timeless in Tamil
- காலமற்றது, காலமற்றவர், காலமற்றவை
timeless in Bengali
- সময়হীন, কালাতীত, কালজয়ী
timeless in Telugu
- కాలాతీతం, కాలరహితం, కాలాతీతమైనది
More languagesFewer languages
- timeless in Malayalam
- കാലാതീതമായ, കാലാതിവർത്തിയായ, നീണ്ടുനിൽക്കുന്ന, ഈടുനിൽക്കുന്ന
- timeless in Kannada
- ಶಾಶ್ವತವಾದ, ಕಾಲದ ಜೊತೆ ಬದಲಾಗದ
- timeless in Punjabi
- ਅਕਾਲ akāl
- timeless in Gujarati
- કાલાતીત, કાલહીન
- timeless in Odia
- ସମଯ଼ହୀନ, କାଳହୀନ
- timeless in Nepali
- कालहीन
Examples of timeless in a sentence
- Cape Verdeans waiting with perfect, timeless patience for a boat that may or may not come.
- As a multifaceted kitchen enabler, nothing can quite supplant the gorgeous, timeless, ever-available, often dirt-cheap terra-cotta flowerpot.
- Wodehouse’s timeless world, to Bertie Wooster unlikelily compounded with Clarence Threepwood.
Synonyms of timeless
- eternal
- ageless
- ill-timed
- undiminishable
- unfading
- everlasting
- immortal
- infinite
- never-ending
- sempiternal
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Antonyms
Forms of timeless
| comparative | more timeless |
|---|---|
| superlative | most timeless |
Origin of timeless
From time + -less.
Words formed from timeless
Phrases with timeless
Questions about timeless
- What does timeless mean?
- Timeless means eternal.
- What is timeless in Hindi?
- Timeless in Hindi is कालातीत (kālātīt). See Timeless meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is timeless?
- Timeless can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near timeless in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: timeless (page history and authors); timeless (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); timeless (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); timeless (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); timeless (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); timeless (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਅਕਾਲ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); timeless (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); timeless (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); timeless (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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