endless
Englisch
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English endeles, from Old English endelēas (“endless”), from Proto-Germanic *andijalausaz (“endless”), equivalent to end + -less.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editendless (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
- Too much or many to be exhausted; an extremely high number or amount of; immeasurable, innumerable.
- 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 64:
- In 1903, [Albert Shhoenhut] announced his Humpty Dumpty circus, with over 20 figures and animals, each with six joints enabling them to be put into endless positions.
- (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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editTranslations
edithaving no end
indefinite
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