Infinite
['ɪnfɪnət]
Definition
(adj.) total and all-embracing; 'God's infinite wisdom' .
(adj.) having no limits or boundaries in time or space or extent or magnitude; 'the infinite ingenuity of man'; 'infinite wealth' .
(adj.) of verbs; having neither person nor number nor mood (as a participle or gerund or infinitive); 'infinite verb form' .
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Definition
(a.) Unlimited or boundless, in time or space; as, infinite duration or distance.
(a.) Without limit in power, capacity, knowledge, or excellence; boundless; immeasurably or inconceivably great; perfect; as, the infinite wisdom and goodness of God; -- opposed to finite.
(a.) Indefinitely large or extensive; great; vast; immense; gigantic; prodigious.
(a.) Greater than any assignable quantity of the same kind; -- said of certain quantities.
(a.) Capable of endless repetition; -- said of certain forms of the canon, called also perpetual fugues, so constructed that their ends lead to their beginnings, and the performance may be incessantly repeated.
(n.) That which is infinite; boundless space or duration; infinity; boundlessness.
(n.) An infinite quantity or magnitude.
(n.) An infinity; an incalculable or very great number.
(n.) The Infinite Being; God; the Almighty.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Unbounded, boundless, unlimited, illimitable, limitless, immeasurable, interminable.[2]. Immense, enormous, vast, stupendous, very great, very large.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See IMMEASURABLE]
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Definition
adj. without end or limit: without bounds: (math.) either greater or smaller than any quantity that can be assigned.—n. that which is not only without determinate bounds but which cannot possibly admit of bound or limit: the Absolute the Infinite Being or God.—adjs. Infin′itant denoting merely negative attribution; Infin′itary pertaining to infinity.—v.t. Infin′itāte to make infinite.—adv. In′finitely.—n. In′finiteness the state of being infinite: immensity.—adj. Infinites′imal infinitely small.—n. an infinitely small quantity.—adv. Infinites′imally.—adj. Infini′to (mus.) perpetual.—ns. Infin′itūde Infin′ity boundlessness: immensity: countless or indefinite number.
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Examples
- With infinite difficulty, for he was stubborn as a stone, I persuaded him to make an exchange in favour of a sober black satin and pearl-grey silk. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Might he be trusted with the commission, what infinite pleasure should he have in executing it! Jane Austen. Emma.
- The variety of peoples and environments, their contrast with familiar scenes, furnishes infinite stimulation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- To her infinite grief she found it was not. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Ten minutes later, to our infinite relief; Superintendent Seegrave arrived at the house. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The work that Edison did was, as usual, marked by infinite variety of method as well as by the power to seize on the one needed element of practical success. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Mrs Merdle had shown him that the case of Edmund was urgent, and that infinite advantages might result from his having some good thing directly. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- And surely, he said, this occurs notably in the case of one; for we see the same thing to be both one and infinite in multitude? Plato. The Republic.
- Its possible extent, therefore, is in a manner infinite in comparison of that of the other two, and is capable of absorbing the greatest capitals. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Oh, dear, thought Meg, married life is very trying, and does need infinite patience as well as love, as Mother says. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- He found in her an infinite relief. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- His fine and lovely eyes were now lighted up with indignation, now subdued to downcast sorrow, and quenched in infinite wretchedness. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Persia, with its cloth of gold, marble halls, and infinite wealth, is now a tomb. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- To my infinite relief, he was a capable man. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I might give as instances those arguments for infinite divisibility, which are derived from the point of contact. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
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