timeless
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English
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Pronunciation
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[edit ]timeless (comparative more timeless, superlative most timeless)
- Eternal.
- c. 1743, Edward Young, "Night 2: On Time, Death, and Friendship", in The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality [1] :
- When Worlds, that count his Circles now, unhing’d,
(Fate the loud Signal sounding) headlong rush
To timeless Night and Chaos, whence they rose.
- Not affected by time; ageless.
- (obsolete ) Done at an improper time; unseasonable; untimely.
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1 [2] , act V, scene 4:
- Must I behold thy timeless, cruel death?
- 1725, Alexander, transl. Pope, The Odyssey of Homer[3] , book 3, London: Bernard Lintot, translation of The Odyssey by Homer, page 143, lines 427–430:
- 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.
- Not decreasing over time in quality and appeal.
- The cave carvings have a timeless beauty.
- Without a time limit; untimed.
- a timeless cricket match
- Outside of time; extratemporal.
Synonyms
[edit ]- (eternal): eternal , everlasting , immortal , infinite , never-ending , sempiternal ; see also Thesaurus:eternal
- (not affected by time): ageless , dateless ; see also Thesaurus:timeless
- (done at an improper time): ill-timed ; see also Thesaurus:untimely
- (not decreasing over time): undiminishable , unfading
Antonyms
[edit ]- (antonym(s) of "eternal"): finite , limited
- (antonym(s) of "not affected by time"): aged , old , sempiternal
- (antonym(s) of "done at an improper time"): timely
Derived terms
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[edit ]eternal — see eternal
ageless — see ageless
untimely — see untimely
- Bulgarian: неостаряващ (neostarjavašt)
- Dutch: tijdloos (nl)
- Finnish: ajaton (fi)
- French: intemporel (fr)
- German: zeitlos (de)
- Greek: διαχρονικός (el) (diachronikós)
- Hindi: कालातीत (hi) (kālātīt)
- Hungarian: időtlen (hu)
- Polish: ponadczasowy (pl) , bezczasowy (pl)
- Portuguese: intemporal (pt)
- Romanian: extemporal (ro) m
- Russian: неподвла́стный вре́мени (nepodvlástnyj vrémeni)
- Spanish: ácrono , acrónico (es)
- Swedish: tidlös (sv)
Noun
[edit ]timeless
- A gene encoding an essential protein that regulates circadian rhythm, normally written in italics: timeless.
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