interminable — Englisches Wörterbuch

Adjektiv

1. Existing or occurring without interruption or end; ceaseless, unending.

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   After supper Sir Pitt Crawley began to smoke his pipe; and when it became quite dark, he lighted the rushlight in the tin candlestick, and producing from an interminable pocket a huge mass of papers, began reading them, and putting them in order.

   The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway.

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   It was now a beautiful, moonlit night. The air was crisp and invigorating. Behind them lay the interminable vista of the desert, dotted here and there with an occasional oasis.

   Life's interminable succession of stages.

Substantiv

1. A repeating decimal.

   Gebrauch

   • veraltend

Adjektiv

1. tiresomely long; seemingly without end

   Synonyme

   endlesseternal

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   endless debates

   an endless conversation

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   the wait seemed eternal

   eternal quarreling

   an interminable sermon