endless
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English endeles, from Old English endelēas (“endless”), from Proto-Germanic *andijalausaz (“endless”), equivalent to end + -less.
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Adjective edit
endless (not comparable)
- Having no end.
- endless time; endless praise
- 1942 May-June, “Cable Operation at Liverpool and London”, in Railway Magazine, page 174:
- Trains from Lime Street to Edge Hill were hauled by an endless hempen rope worked by a stationary engine on the platform at the latter station.
- Extending indefinitely.
- an endless line
- (obsolete) Without profitable end; fruitless; unsatisfying.
- c. 1615–1616, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “Loves Pilgramage, a Comedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act II, scene iii:
- All loves are endless.
Synonyms edit
- (having no end): unending; see also Thesaurus:endless
- (extending indefinitely): eternal, infinite, unlimited; see also Thesaurus:infinite or Thesaurus:eternal
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Translations edit
having no end
indefinite
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