eternally

[ ih-tur-nl-ee ]

adverb

1. in a way that is ceaseless, endless, or perpetual:

   We call on all citizens to be eternally vigilant in ensuring that human rights are protected and sustained.

2. in a way that is enduring and unchanging:

   The couple is eternally grateful for the support shown by their community.

3. Metaphysics. in a way that exists outside of time, without beginning or end:

   I worry I will be eternally tormented in hell, or at the very least punished severely here on earth.

Other Words From

• non·e·ter·nal·ly adverb
• qua·si-e·ter·nal·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of eternally¹

eternal ( def ) + -ly

Example Sentences

Stanley Cowell’s jazz odyssey is still underway The coronavirus is devastating a uniquely American art form McCoy Tyner’s eternal return

From Washington Post

Part of what makes multiple versions of the play eternal, for him, is simply the ritual.

From Washington Post

Each is rare, and the combination of the two—ice on the crater floor and a narrow peak of eternal light on the crater rim—is a prized target for different players.

From Singularity Hub 

He is a storyteller, strategist, and eternal student of marketing and business strategy.

From Search Engine Watch

To be a cyclist is to be in an eternal state of trying to reconcile the two.

From Outside Online

Certain trades, such as medicine or law, are eternally well-respected.

From The Daily Beast

In exactly what fashion could 317 million people “reckon” or come to certain eternally elusive “terms” with racism?

From The Daily Beast

I'm eternally grateful for the efforts that they put into my education.

From The Daily Beast

To celebrate the eternally seductive (and seemingly ageless) actor, we've compiled seven of his best moments.

From The Daily Beast

We never actually see the end to his urination—“Evacuation (eternally not) complete.”

From The Daily Beast

A God who damns eternally must be the most odious Being that the human mind could imagine.

From Project Gutenberg

Mrs. S., tho her dropsicle legs had never carred her half so fur before, was eternally on the key veve, as the French say.

From Project Gutenberg

In the unvarying precision of its mathematical universe, all is eternally written.

From Project Gutenberg

It was a voice and signal which summoned reinforcements of waters, and in obedience to which the waters charged eternally.

From Project Gutenberg

There is no proposition of which it can be asserted that every human mind must eternally and irrevocably believe it.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• perpetually