Reverse Dictionary: LASTING

ADJECTIVES
► AGE-LONG having existed for a very long time; lasting, to seeming to last, for an age → 1804
► ANSWERABLE durable, lasting → 1887 Eng. dial.
► BIDING lasting, continuing, enduring; now usually ‘abiding’ → 1430
► BIDUOUS lasting for two days → 1866
► CONTINUATE long-continued, lasting → 1616 obs.
► DURANT lasting, continuous; current, present → 1455 obs.
► DUREFUL of long continuance; lasting, enduring, continuing, durable → 1594 obs.
► DURELESS not lasting, unenduring → 1614 obs.
► DURING that ‘dures’; lasting, continuing → 1398
► ENDURABLE durable, long-lasting, dependable → 1887 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► INDURANT lasting, continuing long → 1611 obs.
► PERDURABLE lasting; enduring or able to endure over a long period, esp. the course of human history or a lifetime → 1439
► PERDURANT lasting, continuous, permanent → 1670
► PERSEVERANT lasting, enduring, permanent → 1453 obs.
► STICKY long-lasting, persistent → 1879
► SUBSISTENT continuing in existence, lasting → 1603 obs.
► WADY long-lasting; tedious; interminable → 1691 Eng. dial.

ADVERBS
► DURABLY in a durable or lasting manner; lastingly → 1646
► DURINGLY lastingly, continuously, for a long time → 1413 obs.

NOUNS
► DURANCE 1. continuance, duration; lastingness → a1513 obs.
2. lasting quality; durability → 1599 obs.
► DURANCY continuance, duration; lastingness → 1647 obs.
► WADE endurance; power of lasting → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)

VERBS
► BEAR TACK to be substantial, strong, or lasting; to hold out, to endure, to hold one’s own → 1573 obs.