English > permanent: 3 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | continuing or enduring without marked change in status / status or condition or place. |
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| Examples | - "permanent secretary to the president"
- "permanent address"
- "literature of permanent value"
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| Synonym | lasting |
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| Attribute of | permanence, permanency | The property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration |
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| Narrower | abiding, enduring, imperishable | unceasing |
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| ageless, aeonian, eonian, eternal, everlasting, perpetual, unending, unceasing | Continuing forever or indefinitely |
| indissoluble | Used of decisions and contracts |
| standing | not created for a particular occasion |
| See also | ineradicable | not able to be destroyed or rooted out |
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| stable | resistant to change of position or condition |
| unchangeable | not changeable or subject to change |
| Opposite | impermanent, temporary | not permanent |
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| Spanish | estable, fijo, permanente |
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| Catalan | estable, fixe, permanent |
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| Nouns | permanence, permanency | the property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration |
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| permanent | a series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals |
| Adverbs | lastingly | in an enduring or permanent manner |
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| permanently | for a long time without essential change |
