Endless
['endlɪs] or ['ɛndləs]
Definition
(adj.) having the ends united so as to form a continuous whole; 'an endless chain' .
(adj.) infinitely great in number; 'endless waves' .
(adj.) tiresomely long; seemingly without end; 'endless debates'; 'an endless conversation'; 'the wait seemed eternal'; 'eternal quarreling'; 'an interminable sermon' .
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Definition
(a.) Without end; having no end or conclusion; perpetual; interminable; -- applied to length, and to duration; as, an endless line; endless time; endless bliss; endless praise; endless clamor.
(a.) Infinite; excessive; unlimited.
(a.) Without profitable end; fruitless; unsatisfying.
(a.) Void of design; objectless; as, an endless pursuit.
Editor: Randolph
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Interminable, illimitable, unlimited, boundless, immeasurable, infinite.[2]. Eternal, everlasting, perpetual, incessant, continual, uninterrupted.[3]. Immortal, undying, deathless, ever-living, never-dying, imperishable.[4]. Objectless, without purpose or design.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Interminable, illimitable, {[uueiiUi]?}, ug, unceasing, boundless, deathless,imperishable, everlasting, perpetual, eternal, infinite
ANT:Terminable, limited, temporary, brief, transient, periodic, ephemeral,fugitive, finite
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Examples
- Thus it will be possible to introduce almost endless changes in the style of house by variation of the same set of molds. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- We looked again, and saw, through the arbor, an endless stretch of garden, and shrubbery, and grassy lawn. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The first embossed metal plates were linked together in the form of an endless chain, similar to the rubber type plates. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- From the delicate hair spring of a watch to the massive armor plate of a battleship, it finds endless applications, and is nature’s most enduring gift to man--abundant, cheap, and lasting. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Because it was so endless, so hopeless. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- On the ends of the shafts of the bottom and top rolls there were cylindrical sleeves, or bearings, having seven sheaves in which was run a half-inch endless wire rope. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Now for vexation, and exasperation, and endless trouble! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Then you are treated to endless discussions by the critics trying to prove that it is not a play. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He was still for two or three minutes, which seemed endless to her, unable to speak or move, gasping for breath. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The endless disputes whether or not some fifty species of British brambles are good species will cease. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- An endless number of inventors had in the meantime entered the lists. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I enlarged upon many other topics, which the natural desire of endless life, and sublunary happiness, could easily furnish me with. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Endless leather belting was used to transmit the power from the motor to the counter-shaft, and from the latter to the driving-wheels, which were the front pair. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This machine infringed the partners’ patents, and caused them an almost endless series of expensive lawsuits. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Full souls are double mirrors, making still An endless vista of fair things before, Repeating things behind. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- When Woola had finished his meal I again took up my weary and seemingly endless wandering in quest of the elusive waterway. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- These type holders were then ingeniously linked together in the form of an endless chain. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The artist and the adaptor have still hardly begun to work with the endless variety of substances now at their disposal. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We wandered through the endless collections of paintings and statues of the Pitti and Ufizzi galleries, of course. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- O endless vocatives that would still leave expression slipping helpless from the measurement of mortal folly! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The sense of talk, buzzing, jarring, half-secret, the endless mining and political wrangling, vibrated in the air like discordant machinery. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- We were greeted with an endless round of applause and showered with ornaments of gold, platinum, silver, and precious jewels. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Into this there is delivered by the endless chain of buckets shown on the left a continuous stream of a special free-flowing concrete mixture. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This was an endless steel belt serrated on one edge, mounted on pulleys, and driven continuously by the power of steam through the hardest and the heaviest work. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Pyroxiline, xyloidine, and celluloid are allied products, which have found endless applications in toilet articles and for other uses, as a substitute for hard rubber. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- A compact little stitching apparatus, not larger than a tea-pot, is actuated by an endless belt from an electric motor at one end. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- But he sent over endless remembrances of himself to his godson and to her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Slowly we moved through endless corridors of unthinkable beauty; through magnificent apartments, and noble halls. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Needless to say, the working out of the conditions and processes of manufacture of the materials has involved great ingenuity and endless experimentation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The examples are endless. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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