Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Seeming never to grow old or to show the effects of time.
  • adjective Existing forever; eternal.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Without age; without definite limits of existence.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Without old age limits of duration.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective relative to past Having existed for so great a period of time that its longevity cannot be expressed.
  • adjective relative to future Continuing infinitely or indefinitely.
  • adjective Always appearing youthful; never seeming to age.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective continuing forever or indefinitely

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

age +‎ -less

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Examples

  • I remain convinced that I am ageless, which is probably one of the seven warning signs of a delusion for which there is an acronym.

    Memories of the Maw | clusterflock 2010

  • The other main characters are FBI agent Brad Wolgast, death row inmate Anthony Carter and young African nun Lacey in the near future thread, while in the main part, young "watchers" - ie militiamen/women of the colony that protect it from the "virals" aka ageless and seemingly non-sentient, instinct driven, "pseudo-vampires" that populate most of North America now - Peter Jaxon, Alicia Donadio and Peter's older brother Theo.

    "The Passage" by Justin Cronin (Reviewed by Liviu Suciu) Liviu 2010

  • Also love that FWAD has many 'ageless' readers like moi - the number (age) really is secondary to the spirit.

    ebouriffe - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • Also love that FWAD has many 'ageless' readers like moi - the number age really is secondary to the spirit.

    ebouriffe - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • Would you like to know more about becoming the "ageless" golfer?

    Archive 2006-03-01 Thatsnews 2006

  • Certainly he has not gotten his due – but his willingness to put himself out there has steeped Mr. Stamp in a kind of ageless cool.

    Terence Stamp Thinks About Hindi, Cary Grant and a Good Steam at the New York Athletic Club 2000

  • But she had the kind of ageless spirit in her that Salome may have had, that makes experience and maturity more luring and much deadlier than youth, because more interesting and alert with calculated guile.

    Jimgrim Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1931

  • A hard and glittering sanity, a kind of ageless enamel, is what confronts us in their temperament.

    Alone Norman Douglas 1910

  • This narrative and the accompanying lessons in how to be "ageless" are self-defeating.

    NYT > Home Page 2011

  • Mike: congrats this gr8 "ageless" blog piece and on your M$ success!

    Netvouz - new bookmarks anarchyandy 2010

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