Upper-Intermediate 📚 Vocabulary · #1049 of 1319

perpetual (adj.)

never-ending

Examples

  • Perpetual motion.

Key rules

  • Perpetual means never-ending or continuous
  • Perpetual motion, a perpetual problem
  • Perpetually is the adverb
💡 Tip: Describing motion // Describing complaints // Describing problems
Practise this topic in the appPractise Upper-Intermediate quiz
← sporadic (adj.)millennium (n.) →

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