Immortal

Not subject to death or imagined as living forever.

Reach for it when describing a being or life presented as beyond mortality

The story follows an immortal guardian who watches the forest change.

• warm

  undying

  love, loyalty, or memory is presented as never ending

  not when Undying belongs to emotional or figurative praise, not a literal supernatural classification.

• formal

  eternal

  existence outside ordinary time is the intended claim

  not when Eternal can describe ideas or conditions that were never alive.

• literary

  deathless

  poetic language should deny death or oblivion

  not when Deathless sounds archaic and may distract in factual prose.

Remembered or valued across generations.

Reach for it when giving elevated praise to work or achievement with enduring fame

Her immortal melody survives in hundreds of local variations.

• everyday

  legendary

  renown has grown through memorable stories

  not when Legendary allows exaggeration and does not guarantee long-term artistic value.

• warm

  timeless

  continued relevance matters more than literal survival

  not when Timeless does not mean famous and should not describe biological immortality.

• professional

  canonical

  a work holds an established place in a tradition

  not when Canonical concerns institutional status and can exclude beloved popular work.

• formal

  imperishable

  a work or principle resists decay and loss

  not when Imperishable emphasizes durability, not the public fame carried by immortal.

• mortal
• perishable
• forgotten

• immortal being

  The poem addresses the river as an immortal being.

• immortal words

  Her immortal words were copied onto the restored school wall.

• immortal fame

  The discovery brought immortal fame, though it began as a modest field note.