endless — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Having no end.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Examples

   endless time; endless praise

   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.

2. Extending indefinitely.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Examples

   an endless line

3. Too much or many to be exhausted; an extremely high number or amount of; immeasurable, innumerable.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Examples

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   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.

4. Without profitable end; fruitless; unsatisfying.

   Usage

   • not-comparable
   • Obsolete

   Examples

   All loves are endless.

Adjective

1. tiresomely long; seemingly without end

   Synonyms

   eternalinterminable

   Examples

   endless debates

   an endless conversation

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   the wait seemed eternal

   eternal quarreling

   an interminable sermon

2. infinitely great in number

   Examples

   endless waves

3. having no known beginning and presumably no end

   Synonyms

   datelesssempiternal

   Examples

   the dateless rise and fall of the tides

   time is endless

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   sempiternal truth

4. having the ends united so as to form a continuous whole

   Examples

   an endless chain