Synonyms:
durable, lasting, long-lasting, long-lived
Meaning: existing for a long time; "hopes for a durable peace"; "a long-lasting friendship"
Usage examples
Many less durable goods are rented for brief periods.
Madder makes a good durable red, but not a brilliant color.
Abiding sources of economic enjoyments are called durable agents.
By repairs and other methods goods become, and are looked upon as, durable sources of a series of uses.
Likewise, durable material agents and sources of power are limited in number and vary in convenience of location and efficiency.
It comes from internal torture--a thing as necessarily temporary as faith (the source of the other kind of strength) is durable.
Such goods as these are sometimes called unripened consumption goods, but until ripened they bear in part the character of durable agents.
But the general principles of the Government are more stable, and the opinions most prevalent in society are generally more durable than in many other countries.
Few or no instances occur in history of an equal, peaceful, and durable accommodation that has been concluded between two factions which had been inflamed into civil war.
The inhabited house is a source of continued gratification in each moment's shelter it affords; but, further, it is the durable source of a series of future uses, as yet unripened.