lasting

adjective more lasting · most lasting

1. Persisting for an extended period of time. After World War I it was hoped that a lasting peace had been achieved. It hadn’t.

   Similar: abiding, durable

2. obsolete Persisting forever. I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death, And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings His soul and body to their lasting rest.

   Similar: eternal, everlasting, ageful, agelong, amaranthine, celestial, endless, enduring, eterne, everduring, evergreen, eviternal

Similar: abiding, chronic, continuate, diuturnal, durable, standing, durative, endurable, enduring, extending, hard-wearing, lasting, long-drawn-out, long-lasting, long-lived, longevitous, longevous, longsome, perdurable, persistent, prolonged, protracted · Opposite: consumable, dureless, ephemeral, fleeting, nondurable, perishable, short-lived, transient, transitory, undurable, unlasting

verb

1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of last

noun lastings

1. countable, historical, uncountable In full lasting cloth: a durable, plain woven fabric formerly used for making clothes and for the uppers of women's shoes.

   Similar: everlasting

2. countable, uncountable The act or process of shaping footwear on a last.
3. countable, obsolete, uncountable The action or state of persisting; the time during which something or someone persists. 1598, I. D. (possibly John Dee) (translator), Aristotles Politiques, or Discourses of Gouernment, London: Adam Islip, Chapter 12, p. 334, But all things that haue beginning, must come to an end, and whatsoeuer groweth, must likewise deminish, being subiect to corruption and change, according to the

   Similar: continuance, duration, endurance