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ENDLESS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having the ends united so as to form a continuous whole
Example:
an endless chain
Classified under:
Similar:
continuous; uninterrupted (continuing in time or space without interruption)
Derivation:
endlessness (the property of being (or seeming to be) without end)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having no known beginning and presumably no end
Example:
sempiternal truth
Synonyms:
dateless; endless; sempiternal
Classified under:
Similar:
infinite (having no limits or boundaries in time or space or extent or magnitude)
Derivation:
endlessness (the property of being (or seeming to be) without end)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Infinitely great in number
Example:
endless waves
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
infinite (having no limits or boundaries in time or space or extent or magnitude)
Derivation:
endlessness (the property of being (or seeming to be) without end)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Tiresomely long; seemingly without end
Example:
an interminable sermon
Synonyms:
endless; eternal; interminable
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
long (primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified)
Derivation:
endlessness (the property of being (or seeming to be) without end)
Context examples:
Twoscore of manuscripts were travelling the endless round of the magazines.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
On and on they pushed past the endless lines of tents, amid the dense swarms of horsemen and of footmen, until the huge royal pavilion stretched in front of them.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The immediate advantage to herself was by no means inconsiderable, for it supplied her with endless jokes against them both.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The long, long, endless two years and half that are to pass before your brother can hold the living.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Now for vexation, and exasperation, and endless trouble!
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit streets until we emerged into Farrington Street.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There were great stables, where a dozen grooms and boys held forth, rows of vine-clad servants’ cottages, an endless and orderly array of outhouses, long grape arbors, green pastures, orchards, and berry patches.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Of course not, but I don't see the use of your having seventeen waistcoats, endless neckties, and a new hat every time you come home.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The endless ballad had come to an end at last, and the whole diminished company about the camp-fire had broken into the chorus I had heard so often.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Never had I formed a conception of such endless banks of houses, and such a ceaseless stream of life flowing between.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
