Definitions for eternal

eternal e·ter·nal

Spelling: [ih-tur-nl]
IPA: /ɪˈtɜr nl/

Eternal is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 188 anagrams from letters in eternal (aeelnrt).

Definitions for eternal

noun

  1. something that is eternal.
  2. the Eternal, God.

adjective

  1. without beginning or end; lasting forever; always existing (opposed to temporal):
  2. perpetual; ceaseless; endless:
  3. enduring; immutable:
  4. Metaphysics. existing outside all relations of time; not subject to change.

Origin of eternal

1350-1400; Middle English Late Latin aeternālis, equivalent to aetern(us) (see eterne) + -ālis -al1

Examples for eternal

The preacher was trying to explain to us the eternal duration of God's punishment.

The speaker conjures up centuries of collective sagacity, aligning oneself with an eternal, inarguable good.

It may also have left them somewhat untethered, drifting in between their own lives and the eternal mysteries.

In 2008 then Pope Benedict XVI stated quite pointedly that animals are “not called to the eternal life.”

He stated—quite rightly—that animals are never mentioned in connection with eternal life in the Bible.

This is the eternal agreement, but an agreement of which we find it difficult to accept the terms.

But Amy was the wife of Cornelius, and that made an eternal difference.

What had seemed immutable and eternal (“With the Soviet Union forever”) turned out to be a fleeting episode.

They seemed to rise from some eternal deep within her, yet not to be of her making.

Under the eternal urge of freedom we became an independent Nation.

Word Value for eternal
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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