Synonyms for timeless
- adjective
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Everlasting — not decreasing over time in quality and appeal
everlasting, immortal, infinite, evergreen, never-ending, perennial, perpetual, unfading, undiminishable, undying, unending, ceaseless, unceasing
Definitions
- adj. 1
Eternal.
- adj. 2
Not decreasing over time in quality and appeal.
The cave carvings have a timeless beauty.
Related words
- Word family
- timelessly timelessness
- Phrases
- timeless existence
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Timeless carries, perhaps, the fullest idea of eternal, as above and beyond time, and not to be measured by it.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- infinite We cannot have infinite growth on a finite planet.
- immortal We are mortal, but some chess games are immortal.
- everlasting She attained everlasting fame through her work.
- evergreen Crowberry is a low growing, evergreen shrub.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| timeless | rising | |
| infinite | steady | |
| immortal | rising | |
| everlasting | rising | |
| evergreen | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 7 letters
- eternal3, undying3, ageless2
- 8 letters
- infinite3, immortal3, unending3, dateless, unfading
- 9 letters
- unchanged2, perpetual4, perennial4, evergreen3, ceaseless2, unceasing3, atemporal
- 11 letters
- everlasting4
- 14 letters
- undiminishable
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (eternal3 = 3 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- intemporel