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語源

From time +‎ -less.

発音

形容詞

timeless (comparative more timeless, superlative most timeless)

1. Eternal.
   • c. 1743, Edward Young, “Night 2: On Time, Death, and Friendship”, in The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality‎:

     When Worlds, that count his Circles now, unhing’d,
     (Fate the loud Signal sounding) headlong rush
     To timeless Night and Chaos, whence they rose.

2. Not affected by time; ageless.
3. (obsolete) Done at an improper time; unseasonable; untimely.
   • c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1‎, act V, scene 4:

     Must I behold thy timeless, cruel death?

   • 1725, Alexander, transl. Pope, The Odyssey of Homer‎, book 3, London: Bernard Lintot, translation of The Odyssey by Homer, page 143, lines 427–430:

     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.

4. Not decreasing over time in quality and appeal.

   The cave carvings have a timeless beauty.

5. Without a time limit; untimed.

   a timeless cricket match

6. Outside of time; extratemporal.

同意語

• (eternal): eternal, everlasting, immortal, infinite, never-ending, sempiternal; see also Thesaurus:eternal
• (not affected by time): ageless; see also Thesaurus:timeless
• (done at an improper time): ill-timed; see also Thesaurus:untimely
• (not decreasing over time): undiminishable, unfading

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “eternal”): finite, limited
• (antonym(s) of “not affected by time”): aged, old, sempiternal
• (antonym(s) of “done at an improper time”): timely

派生語

名詞

timeless

1. A gene encoding an essential protein that regulates circadian rhythm, normally written in italics: timeless.

参考

• eternal now

アナグラム

• Steimels, Steimles, listemes