enduring

Modifying Another Word

• relatively: Spranger saw the second stage as essential preparation for the third stage, the establishment of a personal and relatively enduring perspective.
• very: He is quick to respond to attraction, and easily becomes enthusiastic under such stimulus; but he is not very enduring.
• only: The painful results of my indiscipline with my hammer invite inner growth, which is the only enduring gift of the tool.
• about: Denying self isn't about giving up chocolate for Lent and taking up our cross isn't about enduring backache.

Modifies a noun

• legacy: Perhaps the most enduring legacy of the British is the cuisine.
• fascination: The question of what we're like has an enduring fascination for most of us.
• popularity: The way the software functions is the key to its enduring popularity.
• friendship: It is hard to see what an enduring friendship was supposed to be based upon.
• illness: The service helps people who suffer from severe and enduring mental illness, who often have diverse and complex needs.
• appeal: Now The Beatles ' enduring appeal has led to them being named Icons of the Century by the entertainment bible Variety.

Used with adjective complement

• prove: In many of these fur-trade enterprises, kinship ties proved far more enduring than company loyalties.