perpetual

per-PECH-oo-uladj

Meaning never ending or changing; constant

Memory hook per-PET-ual: a PET whose tail never stops. Biscuit the dog wags his tail morning, noon and night; even in his sleep it thumps. His wagging is perpetual.

The perpetual drip of the leaky faucet kept Felix awake all night.

In context Living beside the waterfall meant perpetual noise: day and night, summer and winter, the roar never stopped.

Similar endless, constant, unending, everlasting

Opposite temporary, brief, intermittent

From Latin perpetuus, “continuing throughout.”

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