Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Being or seeming to be without an end or limit; boundless: an endless universe; an endless conversation.
- adj. Formed with the ends joined; continuous: an endless chain.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not having a termination; continuing without end, really or apparently; having no limit or conclusion: as, endless progression; endless bliss; the endless pursuit of an object.
- Not having ends; returning upon itself so as to exhibit neither beginning nor end: as, an endless belt or chain; a circular race-course is endless.
- Perpetually recurring; interminable; incessant; continual: as, endless praise; endless clamor.
- Without object, purpose, or use.
- Without profitable conclusion; fruitless.
- Synonyms Eternal, everlasting, perpetual, unceasing, imperishable, uninterrupted, boundless, immeasurable, unlimited.
Wiktionary
- adj. having no end
- adj. extending indefinitely
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Without end; having no end or conclusion; perpetual; interminable; -- applied to length, and to duration
- adj. Infinite; excessive; unlimited.
- adj. rare Without profitable end; fruitless; unsatisfying.
- adj. Void of design; objectless.
- adj. having a linear or ribbonlike form with the two ends connected together, such as in a circle, ellipse, torus, or any other closed loop. Belts or chains used in drive mechanisms are considered
endless in this sense. See endless chain.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. infinitely great in number
- adj. having the ends united so as to form a continuous whole
- adj. having no known beginning and presumably no end
- adj. tiresomely long; seemingly without end
Etymologies
- end + -less (Wiktionary)
Examples
“It is used, in a few instances, to denote an endless age, by attaching to it another word for _endless_.”
“The design and features you can use are endless, and the amount of people on hand that offer their services when you can't figure it out is endless* (* sometimes at a price - like anything else), the amount of free designs and plugins to extend functionality that is on offer is so great you really don't have to splash out on often expensive designs if you don't want to or cant afford it.”
“The term endless strings of meaningless objections sheds an undeserving negative light on string ...”
“Barak said he is tired of what he described as endless infighting.”
Voice of America: Israeli Defense Minister Barak Quits Political Party
“With "Tristan und Isolde," Wagner fully abandoned opera's separate arias and ensembles for what he called the "endless melody" of his new form, music drama.”
The Wall Street Journal: At the Ravinia Festival, A Liszt of Subtle Works
“The reality is that mothers are still in charge of what I refer to as the endless list of child-rearing in my book When Parents Disagree and What You Can Do About It.”
“Another kind of dream I have is what I call endless house dreams.”
“And we're going to march through our agenda to get this country moving again, because after six years and, more importantly, what I refer to as the endless occupation in Iraq and the wageless recovery here at home, the American people want a Congress that's going to meet the challenges that are facing this country.”
“JOAN LEFKOW, U.S. DIS.RICT JUDGE: Finally, I'm the wife who wakes up in the morning not to a cup of coffee presented by my husband of 30 years, to reopen what we called the endless conversation of marriage, but to an open book that I was reading in an effort to banish the memories of 5: 30 p.m. on the day our world changed forever.”
“That's what I call the endless contest to see which political side can express more outrage about what the other side has to say about it.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘endless’.
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Yazhinni Spelling bee
tongue, stallion, scruple, salinity, schedule, rouge, populist, Permian, perspire, pasteurize, multitude, mournful and 227 more...
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-more or -less
Words ending with *more or *less, more or less. Many of theses terms also appear on the list The -less Said, which see.
schemaless, unless, useless, guileless, wireless, regardless, homeless, endless, nevertheless, countless, jobless, doubtless and 434 more...
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Stuffie: Love
Love and all that stuff.
puppy, triangle, tough, first, in the third degree, handles, endless, bite, shack, bird, potion, tainted and 29 more...
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Humanity
bodies, organs, jar, soul, oblivion, annihilate, heart, warfare, people, work, endless, meek and 9 more...
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Sardanapalian
sardanapalian, villain, breathe, legion, melt, death, juliet, dying, endless, breathtaking, devil, vis-à-vis and 13 more...
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Time
Words related to time
time, occurrence, duration, schedule, calendar, period, continuance, event, before, until, since, after and 28 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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GPaX. Words.
excogitate, clarity, obscurity, tangential, interesting, regurgitate, mycelium, degradation, unladen, swallow, klein, quote and 120 more...
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The -less Said...
hopeless, bootless, groundless, luckless, artless, feckless, hapless, joyless, useless, penniless, childless, peerless and 310 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, E
excoriate, exoskeleton, enclave, endemic, erstwhile, entwine, elliptical, élan, earflaps, earlobe, earthen, earthenware and 238 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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ivomortani's Words
solitude, sanctuary, life, dawn, flourish, caress, utopia, fecund, prolific, saviour, design, belief and 100 more...
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eloise's Words
embrace, perfect, imagine, dance, water, color, echo, hollow, sorrow, beauty, impossible, violet and 438 more...
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TT2 Lesson 13
magnificent, island, remote, major, land mass, archipeligo, consist, inhabit, inhabitant, inhabited, southernmost, Oahu and 82 more...
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purple mountain magesties
US mountain ranges
cascade, sierra, rocky, wallowa, teton, smoky, adirondack, appalachian, blue ridge, shawangunk, green, endless and 17 more...
Tweets
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endlessdawn A favourite of mine. Add a serene word onto the end of it and it sounds like a miniature poem of itself already. May 9, 2009
gufodotto endless as in "Endless Forms Most Beautiful" Feb 5, 2008