enduring

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈdʊɹɪŋ/, /ɪnˈdɝɪŋ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈdjʊəɹɪŋ/, /ɪnˈdjɔːɹɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ʊəɹɪŋ
• Hyphenation: en‧dur‧ing

Adjective

enduring (comparative more enduring, superlative most enduring)

1. Long-lasting without significant alteration; continuing through time in the same relative state.

   an enduring belief in democracy

Synonyms

• diuturnal, prolonged; see also Thesaurus:lasting

Related terms

durative endure perduring

Translations

long-lasting

• Armenian: դիմացկուն (hy) (dimacʿkun)
• Bulgarian: траен (bg) (traen), продължителен (bg) (prodǎlžitelen)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 久 (zh) (jiǔ), 持久 (zh) (chíjiǔ)

• German: beständig (de), andauernd (de), bleibend (de), ausdauernd (de), dauerhaft (de), anhaltend (de)
• Hungarian: tartós (hu)

• Maori: , matatū, tāroa, tūroa
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: langvarig, vedvarende (no)

• Plautdietsch: bestendich, duarhauft
• Polish: trwały (pl) m, wytrzymały (pl) m
• Portuguese: perdurante
• Romanian: de durată, durabil (ro)
• Swedish: tålig (sv)
• Tibetan: སྲིང་བ་ (sring ba), ཐུབ་པ་ (thub pa)
• Tocharian B: eṃṣketstse

Verb

enduring

1. present participle of endure

Noun

enduring (plural endurings)

1. endurance
   • 1854, James Kennedy, Probable Origin of the American Indians, page 14:

     It could be only long years of privations and endurings of hardships that could enable the Esquimaux to traverse over those icy regions with the facilities they have learned to practise […]

Anagrams

• rudening, unringed