timeless
nounEtymology From time + -less.
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A gene encoding an essential protein that regulates circadian rhythm, normally written in italics: timeless.
- Related terms
- eternal now
timeless
adjEtymology From time + -less.
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Eternal.
- When Worlds, that count his Circles now, unhing’d, (Fate the loud Signal sounding) headlong rush To timeless Night and Chaos, whence they rose.c. 1743, Edward Young, “Night 2: On Time, Death, and Friendship”, in The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality:
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Not affected by time; ageless.
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Obsolete Done at an improper time; unseasonable; untimely.
- Must I behold thy timeless, cruel death?c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, act V, scene 4:
- The lamp of day is quench’d beneath the deep, And soft approach the balmy hours of sleep: Nor fits it to prolong the heav’nly feast Timeless, indecent, but retire to rest.1725, Alexander, transl. Pope, The Odyssey of Homer, book 3, London: Bernard Lintot, translation of The Odyssey by Homer, page 143, lines 427–430:
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Not decreasing over time in quality and appeal.
- The cave carvings have a timeless beauty.
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Without a time limit; untimed.
- a timeless cricket match
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Outside of time; extratemporal.
- Synonyms
- eternal, everlasting, immortal, infinite, never-ending, sempiternal, ageless, ill-timed, undiminishable, unfading, achronic, atemporal, extratemporal, timeless
- Derived terms
- timeless existence, timelessly, timeless moment, timelessness, timeless Test, untimeless
- Related terms
- timelessly, timelessness
- Hyponyms
- ageless