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English
Etymology
From Middle English endeles, from Old English endelēas (“endless”), from Proto-Germanic *andijalausaz (“endless”), equivalent to end + -less.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɛndlɪs/, /ˈɛndləs/
- Hyphenation: end‧less
Adjective
endless (not comparable)
- Having no end.
endless time; endless praise
1942 May-June, “Cable Operation at Liverpool and London”, in Railway Magazine, page 174:Trains from Lime Street to Edge Hill were hauled by an endless hempen rope worked by a stationary engine on the platform at the latter station.
- Extending indefinitely.
an endless line
- Too much or many to be exhausted; an extremely high number or amount of; immeasurable, innumerable.
1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 64:In 1903, [Albert Shhoenhut] announced his Humpty Dumpty circus, with over 20 figures and animals, each with six joints enabling them to be put into endless positions.
- (obsolete) Without profitable end; fruitless; unsatisfying.
c. 1615–1616, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “Loves Pilgramage, a Comedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies , London: Humphrey Robinson, , and for Humphrey Moseley , published 1647, →OCLC, Act II, scene iii:All loves are endless.
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having no end
- Armenian: անվերջ (hy) (anverǰ)
- Bulgarian: безкраен (bg) (bezkraen)
- Catalan: interminable (ca)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 不盡 / 不尽 (bat1 zeon6)
- Hokkien: 不盡 / 不尽 (zh-min-nan) (put-chīn)
- Mandarin: 無窮 / 无穷 (zh) (wúqióng)
- Mandarin: 不盡 / 不尽 (zh) (bùjìn)
- Czech: nekonečný (cs)
- Danish: endeløs (da)
- Dutch: eindeloos (nl)
- Esperanto: senfina (eo)
- Finnish: loputon (fi), loppumaton (fi), päättymätön (fi)
- French: infini (fr), interminable (fr), perpétuel (fr)
- Galician: infindo (gl), infinito (gl), sen termo, sen fin
- Georgian: უსასრულო (usasrulo), დაუსრულებელი (dausrulebeli), გაუთავებელი (gautavebeli), უთავბოლო (utavbolo), უსაზღვრო (usazɣvro)
- German: endlos (de), unbegrenzt (de)
- Gothic: 𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌹𐌻𐌰𐌿𐍃 (andilaus)
- Greek: ατελείωτος (el) (ateleíotos), ατέλειωτος (el) (atéleiotos)
- Ancient Greek: ᾰ̓́πειρος (ápeiros), ἀνήνυτος (anḗnutos), ἀανής (aanḗs)
- Ingrian: otsatoin
- Italian: interminabile (it), senza fine, infinito (it)
- Japanese: 無限の (ja) (むげん, mugen no), 果てしない (ja) (はてしない, hateshinai)
- Khmer: អនន្ត (km) (ʼaʼnɑn)
- Latin: infīnītus, aeternus (la)
- Latvian: nebeidzams
- Lithuanian: begalinis
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: endeløs
- Persian: بیپایان (bê-pâyân)
- Portuguese: infinito (pt), infindável (pt), incessante (pt), infindo (pt)
- Romanian: fără sfârșit, nesfârșit (ro), interminabil (ro)
- Russian: бесконе́чный (ru) (beskonéčnyj)
- Sanskrit: अनन्त (sa) (ananta)
- Scottish Gaelic: sìorraidh
- Serbo-Croatian: bezgraničan (sh)
- Spanish: interminable, sinfín (es), infinito (es)
- Swedish: ändlös (sv)
- Telugu: అంతములేని (antamulēni), అనంతము (te) (anantamu)
- Thai: อนันต์ (th) (à-nan)
- Turkish: sonsuz (tr), bitmeyen
- Urdu: لامتناہی (lāmutanāhī)
- Welsh: annherfynol (cy), bythol, diddiwedd, diderfyn (cy), didranc
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