permanent

  • (a) continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place
    • permanent secretary to the president
    • permanent address
    • literature of permanent value
    lasting,
  • (s) not capable of being reversed or returned to the original condition
    • permanent brain damage

Nouns

  • (n) a series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals permanent wave, perm,

Synonyms

lasting permanent wave perm

Antonyms

impermanent temporary

See also

ineradicable stable unchangeable

Words of close approximity

permanent injunction permanently permanent magnet permanent press permanent-press permanent tooth permanent wave