 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
immortal
adjective: not subject to death [ant: {mortal}]
noun
1: a person (such as an author) of enduring fame; "Shakespeare
is one of the immortals"
2: any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part
of the world or some aspect of life or who is the
personification of a force [syn: {deity}, {divinity}, {god}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Immortal \Im*mor"tal\, noun
One who will never cease to be; one exempt from death, decay,
or annihilation. --Bunyan.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Immortal \Im*mor"tal\, adjective [L. immortalis; pref. im- not +
mortalis mortal: cf. F. immortel. See {Mortal}, and cf.
{Immortelle}.]
1. Not mortal; exempt from liability to die; undying;
imperishable; lasting forever; having unlimited, or
eternal, existance.
Unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible. --1 Tim.
i. 17.
For my soul, what can it do to that,
Being a thing immortal as itself? --Shak.
2. Connected with, or pertaining to immortality.
I have immortal longings in me. --Shak.
3. Destined to live in all ages of this world; abiding;
exempt from oblivion; imperishable; as, immortal fame.
One of the few, immortal names,
That were not born to die. --Halleck.
4. Great; excessive; grievous. [Obs.] --Hayward.
{Immortal flowers}, immortelles; everlastings.
Syn: Eternal; everlasting; never-ending; ceaseless;
perpetual; continual; enduring; endless; imperishable;
incorruptible; deathless; undying.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
193 Moby Thesaurus words for "immortal":
Olympian, aggrandized, all-knowing, all-powerful, all-seeing,
all-wise, almighty, amaranthine, apotheosized, awesome, beatified,
beyond compare, beyond comparison, big, big name, boundless,
canonized, ceaseless, celebrated, celebrity, changeless, classic,
constant, constellation, creating, creative, cynosure, dea,
deathless, deified, deity, deus, deva, devi, devil-god, divine,
divinity, easily first, elevated, embalmed, eminent, endless,
enduring, ennobled, enshrined, enthroned, eternal,
eternally the same, ever-fresh, everlasting, exalted, excellent,
facile princeps, fadeless, false god, famous, figure, folk hero,
frozen, galaxy, genius, glorified, glorious, god, goddess, godlike,
good, grand, great, great man, hallowed, heathen god, heavenly,
held in awe, hero, heroine, high, high and mighty, highest, holy,
honored, idol, immortalized, immutable, imperishable,
important person, impregnable, incomparable, incorruptible,
indelible, indestructible, ineffaceable, ineradicable,
inexpugnable, inextinguishable, infinite, inimitable, invincible,
invulnerable, just, lauded, legend, limitless, lion, lofty, loving,
luminaries, luminary, luminous, magnified, majestic, making,
man of mark, master spirit, matchless, merciful, mighty, name,
never-dying, never-ending, nonperishable, notability, notable,
nulli secundus, numinous, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, one,
pagan deity, peerless, permanent, perpetual, person of note,
personage, pleiad, pop hero, popular hero, popular idol, praised,
public figure, quenchless, radiant, remembered, renowned, sacred,
sainted, sanctified, second to none, sempiternal, shaping, shrined,
social lion, somebody, sovereign, star, sublime, sui generis,
supereminent, superstar, supreme, the shining ones, throned,
timeless, ubiquitous, unapproachable, unapproached, unbeatable,
unbounded, unchanging, undampable, undefined, undestroyable,
undying, unending, unequaled, unexampled, unexcelled, unfading,
unique, unlimited, unmatchable, unmatched, unparagoned,
unparalleled, unpeered, unquenchable, unrivaled, unsurpassable,
unsurpassed, without equal, without parallel, worthy
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