permanent

1. 1.

   continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place

   “permanent secretary to the president”

   “permanent address”

   “literature of permanent value”

   Synonymslasting

   Antonymsimpermanent

   Similarabidingagelessindissolublestanding
2. 2.

   not capable of being reversed or returned to the original condition

   “permanent brain damage”

   Similarirreversible

1. 1.

   a series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals

   Synonymspermanent waveperm

   Broaderwave

Other forms of permanent

plural

permanents·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about permanent

What does permanent mean?

permanent means "continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in permanent?

permanent has 3 syllables: per-ma-nent. The stress falls on "per". In IPA it is /ˈpɝmənənt/.

What is another word for permanent?

Close synonyms include lasting, permanent wave, perm. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of permanent?

The recorded antonyms are impermanent.

Is permanent a common word?

permanent is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with permanent?

1 word rhymes with permanent. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.