English English Dictionary

permanent in English:

1. temporary

The roadblock is only temporary. It will be removed when the construction is finished.

As the recession set in, temporary employees were laid off one after another.

All temporary workers have to contact HR department.

Does she come from the agency that sent the last temporary I had?

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Recession is a temporary falling off of business activity during a period when such activity is generally increasing.

Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

If you are having temporary financial problems and it is the cause of your outstanding account, let us know about it.

I've run up against all kinds of people, working as a temporary.

: If we stopped now, our sense of security would be false and temporary.

Do you think a person's wage should depend on whether their job is temporary or permanent?

This bad weather is temporary, so Grandma will soon be able to go out again.

If they renovate our building we will have to move to a temporary one.

Many employees on temporary contract would like the security of a permanent job.

Could I get some temporary treatment because I'll be going back to Japan soon?

English word "permanent"(temporary) occurs in sets:

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2. constantly

The man who is constantly making decisions and being compelled to alter them gets nowhere.

People who are constantly copying others do it because they can't think for themselves.

sifted constantly

Clovis, the constantly jumping wino, has prominent quadriceps and fantastic glutes.

Physicists discovered that atoms are made up of vortices of energy that are constantly spinning and vibrating.

Even small drops striking constantly will bore through a granite mountain.

When you are constantly told no smoking, no smoking like that, you start thinking, maybe smoking really is a threat to public morals or something.

Pythagoras used to say that he had received as a gift from Mercury the perpetual transmigration of his soul, so that it was constantly transmigrating and passing into all sorts of plants or animals.

Felix constantly worries that he isn't amounting to anything, even though he's only a freshman in high school.

Kirby's quintessentially Japanese cuteness is almost incomprehensible to his American audience, who satirize him as a dark and gloomy character constantly, almost as a reflex.

He didn't waste a single minute, thinking constantly about how to survive and how to improve his condition.

I was sacked from my job for being constantly late.

In the last few years of the company's existence the recearch staff were constantly intimidated and set against each other.

A self-proclaimed democrat, who is lucky enough to live in a democratic country, but who constantly swears at politicians without committing himself to politics, has probably not understood the word "democracy".

3. antonym for transient

English word "permanent"(antonym for transient) occurs in sets:

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4. not temporary

English word "permanent"(not temporary) occurs in sets:

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5. perpetual

Latin is a perpetual language.

the perpetual noise of the machines

The personal mind is in a perpetual state of change.

Most think that their legal dilemma is perpetual, that it will never end.

Claire thought she might become a perpetual student. She just kept going from course to course.

their perpetual money worries

Lifelong education means perpetual retraining.

Justice is the constant and perpetual desire to give to each one that to which he is entitled. Jurisprudence is the knowledge of matters divine and human, and the comprehension of what is just and what is unjust.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Pythagoras used to say that he had received as a gift from Mercury the perpetual transmigration of his soul, so that it was constantly transmigrating and passing into all sorts of plants or animals.

6. persistent

This isn't persistent vegetative state.

Her persistent character always impressed me.

A persistent cough

After a streak of bad luck, a persistent gambler will be forced to play for high stakes.

Mark is hard-working and persistent; I’m sure he’ll solve the problem.

The persistent recession has surprised the analysts.

She is a persistent offender and has been arrested five times this year for shoplifting.

Her persistent character always impressed me. The definition of persistent is someone or something that is stubborn or keeps on going.

He was very determined, in other words, he was persistent.

The person may have persistent, vice-like chest pain, which may spread to their arms, neck, jaw, back or stomach.

There have been persistent rumours that the principal might take early retirement.

Although she told him she knew nothing, he was very persistent. His persistent refusal to pay eventually led to a prison sentence.

You must be more persistent, don’t let him leave until he has given you a straight answer.

The customer wasmost persistent and refused to speak to anyone but the manager

Optimism abiut our own personal future remains persistent

English word "permanent"(persistent) occurs in sets:

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7. retentive memory

8. job does not have a specific end date

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