DEATHLESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does deathless mean? 

• DEATHLESS (adjective)
  The adjective DEATHLESS has 1 sense:

1. never dying

  Familiarity information: DEATHLESS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEATHLESS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Never dying

Synonyms:

deathless; undying

Context example:

his undying fame

Similar:

immortal (not subject to death)

 Context examples 

The centre of that circle was "work performed"; it ate at his brain like a deathless maggot.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Spitz ran out his tongue and laughed again, and from that moment Buck hated him with a bitter and deathless hatred.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The very small inconvenience of being bitten, my young friend, cannot, I am sure, weigh with you as against the glorious privilege of having your name inscribed in the deathless roll of zoology.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I am little better than a devil at this moment; and, as my pastor there would tell me, deserve no doubt the sternest judgments of God, even to the quenchless fire and deathless worm.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I think that voice held him most with its fluctuating, feverish warmth because it couldn't be over-dreamed—that voice was a deathless song.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)