Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Lasting; continuing; durable: a novel of enduring interest.
- adj. Long-suffering; patient.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Lasting; permanent; unchangeable: as, an enduring habitation.
- During.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of endure.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Lasting; durable; long-suffering.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. patiently bearing continual wrongs or trouble
- adj. unceasing.
Examples
“He noted that 8,000 or so have volunteered to defend their homes and he said that could be a catalyst for what he called enduring change -- Kitty.”
“A work that is created (fixed in tangible form for the first time) on or after January 1, 1978, is automatically protected from the moment of its creation and is ordinarily given a term enduring for the author's life plus an additional 70 years after the author's death.”
“A work that is created and fixed in tangible form for the first time on or after January 1, 1978, is automatically protected from the moment of its creation and is ordinarily given a term enduring for the author's life plus an additional 70 years after the author's death.”
“How did we arrive at this sad state of affairs, which I call the enduring enigma of the American public?”
“We believe, and we believe that you believe, that of the many and proliferating means for communicating big ideas, one of the most effective, and therefore most enduring, is fiction.”
“The firm's executive creative director, who is also the official artist of Elvis Presley's Graceland estate, was referring to his enduring devotion to the Mets, Knicks and Jets.”
The Wall Street Journal: Turning Woeful Mets Into Works of Art
“If words and poetry can endure "News that stays news" as a great poet said and the expression of enduring ideas in poetry can piss off people -- and incite an extremist "reading" of the poetry -- then, yes, poetry is relevant -- as always.”
“This little anecdote is offered as both a prelude to, and an illustration of, my topic here: the centrality of imagination in enduring fiction.”
“And still the mutiny we are enduring is ridiculous and grotesque.”
““It means spending real time with patients, empathically listening to their illness narratives, eliciting and respondig to their explanatory models, and engaging the psychosocial coping processes involved in enduring or ending life.””
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘enduring’.
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@vcb.etym.prjct - SAT WORD DUMP - as ...
The words on this list SAT regulars that I haven't sorted and grouped yet. It's like my wordy holding pen. get it? holding the pen to write a word? HA! I love how lame my humor is.
iconoclast, glacial, agnostic, histrionic, treacly, contemptuous, captious, bombastic, bombast, perfidy, quiescence, sordid and 148 more...
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Dominant/Submissive
abusive, adamant, autocratic, bossy, bullheaded, bumptious, certain, cock-a-hoop, cocksure, cocky, commanding, compelling and 189 more...
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This intriguing novel .... is a taut,...
Crimes committed by book reviewers. Terms here are culled shamelessly from a recent New York Times blog post, and the comments that it generated.
Seven Deadly Sins
See a...poignant, compelling, taut, lyrical, spare, eschew, limn, craft, nuanced, contrived, majestic, subtle and 52 more...
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Nom de Guerre Finder
You've taken all the other quizzes--you've already used the name of your first pet and you're tired of having to use the name of the first street where you lived. Now it's time to find your excitin...
odyssey, dawn, desert, storm, noble, eagle, shield, freedom, enduring, swift, sharp, edge and 50 more...
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Personal Vocabulary List
All my favourite words that I come across!
veritable, incongruence, rigamorole, letcherous, revolting, repulsive, reputrid, rapatious, forays, guise, placate, paradigm and 1162 more...
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dur-, duro-
hard; lasting
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artoparts's Words
illation, finite, edify, abide, abrade, vouch, amiss, vociferate, perusing, techantiquery, rigamarole, holon and 615 more...
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words i love
mahogany, serenity, quell, requiem, parhelion, echo, surfacing, ethereal, melodic, vivid, sirenic, sprightly and 122 more...
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Prosie: Obama's Inaugural Address
In keeping with my other Prosies (like this one). There were a number of phrases as well as words in this speech that I found particularly compelling.
My fellow citizens: I stand here ...we did not turn b..., when we were tested, what storms may come, icy currents, virtue, hope, alarmed, depth of winter, revolution, snow, enemy, abandoned and 257 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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Long or Lengthened
Adjectives meaning long or lengthened
abiding, enduring, perennial, persistent, prolonged, protracted, sustained, unabating, prolix, elongate, prolongated
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Contronympho
A list of my most favorite contronyms, words that 'defeat themselves' by having multiple-meanings which contradict. Also called antagonyms, auto-antonyms, autantonyms, Janus words, and self-antony...
over, identify, clear, before, execute, bolt, custom, garnish, left, off, charge, save and 56 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for enduring.
whichbe A contronym: can mean either "long lasting" or "suffering through". In some context this can lead to antonymic word play, as Noam Chomsky pointed out in connection with George W. Bush's name for the war in Afghanistan: "Enduring Freedom". (Wikipedia) Jun 6, 2008