deathless

adjective

ˈdeth-ləs How to pronounce deathless (audio)
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as in immortal
lasting forever an author who craved deathless fame

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Recent Examples of deathless That stuff is deathless, and in Sammy Glick, Schulberg invented one of the most enduring craven strivers in American literature. — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024 The eloquence of this thought and feeling, incarnated as affect, proves every year to be deathless. — Sophie Lewis, Harper's Magazine, 10 Oct. 2022 Writers’ moods certainly don’t work that way; after all, Malamud wrote at least a half-dozen deathless short stories and a couple of classic novels … and still felt sunk. — Mark Athitakis, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2023 And a lot of Ant-Man's charm when the character first debuted in his own standalone movie in 2015 was in fact the human scale of the story: a blithe, goofy comedy that just happened to have superhero stuff in it (and of course, the deathless dimples of Paul Rudd). — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 17 Feb. 2023 See All Example Sentences for deathless
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  1. immortal
  2. eternal
  3. endless
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  • In subsequent retcons and embellishments over the years, before the Big Bang occurred for the seventh round, Galan was infused with the glowing omnipotent essence of the Sentience of the Cosmos to become the immortal being Galactus.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 12 Mar. 2025
  • And so Rose, immortal on the field, with a bat, was judged immoral off it by the saints who guard baseball’s gate.
    — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2025
Definition of immortal
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  • We can all be seduced by the prospect of eternal life and beauty.
    — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2025
  • But like the fairy tale’s Evil Queen, Disney announced plans a few days ago to put business as usual on the red carpet into an eternal sleep.
    — Chris Lee, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2025
Definition of eternal
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  • For $17 you are saved from endless bickering about which passenger gets the charger, which is especially helpful when traveling as a family.
    — Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 13 Mar. 2025
  • The modern Republican Party stands for avoiding bloody and costly foreign entanglements while Democrats plead for endless funnels of cash for Ukraine.
    — Mark Davis, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025
Definition of endless

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