Interminable
[ɪn'tɜːmɪnəb(ə)l] or [ɪn'tɝmɪnəbl]
Definition
(a.) Without termination; admitting no limit; boundless; endless; wearisomely protracted; as, interminable space or duration; interminable sufferings.
Typist: Shelley
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Illimitable, unlimited, boundless, unbounded, limitless, endless, infinite.
Typed by Carlyle
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Unending, endless, everlasting, perpetual, infinite, boundless, illimitable,limitless
ANT:Terminable, brief, moderate, curt, short, momentary
Edited by Georgina
Definition
adj. without termination or limit: boundless: endless.—n. Inter′minableness.—adv. Inter′minably.—Interminate decimal a decimal conceived as carried to an infinity of places.
Editor: Rodney
Examples
- Lonely musings, interminable wanderings, and solemn music were her only pastimes. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The statues are all large; the palace is grand; the park covers a fair-sized county; the avenues are interminable. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I found myself lying prone upon a bed of yellowish, mosslike vegetation which stretched around me in all directions for interminable miles. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- It was as though all the weariness of the past months had culminated in the vacuity of that interminable evening. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- And presently, Margaret, racking her brain to talk to Fanny, heard her mother and Mrs. Thornton plunge into the interminable subject of servants. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Thus, throughout the life of Edison's patents on electric light, power, and distribution, the interminable legal strife has continued from day to day, from year to year. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Fresh doubts, fresh difficulties, fresh delays began to open before me in interminable prospect. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- In silence we again drove for an interminable distance with the windows raised, until at last, just after midnight, the carriage pulled up. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The world is vast, and England, though her many fields and wide spread woods seem interminable, is but a small part of her. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- To be spared from her aunt Norris's interminable reproaches! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Would the session not become an interminable wrangle? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Shall I wake, and speak to none, pass the interminable hours, my soul, islanded in the world, a solitary point, surrounded by vacuum? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Far away the staring roads, deep in dust, stared from the hill-side, stared from the hollow, stared from the interminable plain. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Sir Leicester has no objection to an interminable Chancery suit. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Editor: Rodney