outlast

Remain after others

To outlast is to endure longer than something else—to remain when others have faded, broken, or given up.

Their marriage outlasted all predictions.

These boots will outlast anything else in your closet.

The word implies survival through comparison: you outlast competitors, storms, or difficult circumstances by simply persisting beyond them.

survival

survivor

One still alive after

survivalist · weather · persist · resist · immunity · resistant · indestructible · holdout · remnant · victor

endurance

resilience

Capacity to recover quickly

perseverance · grit · staying power · durability · toughness · hardiness · determination · steadfastness · patience · robustness

timelessness

eternal

Lasting without end

everlasting · enduring · classic · abiding · permanent · indelible · unfading · legacy · monument · perennial

obsolescence

vintage

Quality from past eras

vestige · holdover · anachronism · bygone · dated · superseded · obsolete · dinosaur · remnant · artifact

Categories
Opposites
duration/endurance

outlastsuccumb

Yield to pressure

give out · fail · expire · break down · wear out

competitive survival

outlastlose

Fail to keep

drop out · bow out · yield · capitulate · concede

Family

outlasted, outlasts, outlasting

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G