endless

[end-lis]

adjective

1. having or seeming to have no end, limit, or conclusion; boundless; infinite; interminable; incessant.

   an endless series of complaints; Time is endless.

   Synonyms: perpetual, continuous, unceasing, unending, illimitable, limitless

2. made continuous, as by joining the two ends of a single length.

   an endless chain or belt.

endless

/ ˈɛndlɪs /

adjective

1. having or seeming to have no end; eternal or infinite

2. continuing too long or continually recurring

3. formed with the ends joined

   an endless belt

Other Word Forms

• endlessly adverb
• endlessness noun
• quasi-endless adjective
• quasi-endlessly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of endless¹

First recorded before 900; Middle English endelees, Old English endelēas. See end ¹, -less

Synonym Study

See eternal.

Example Sentences

Two years on, the split is sharper than ever between Hamas loyalists who still defend the movement to the core, and a war-weary majority of Gazans who have lost patience with endless destruction and despair.

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Bellamy has always watched and analysed football obsessively - from the World Cups he followed as a boy to the endless hours of opposition footage that he consumes as a coach.

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Our fascination with reality stars rests in the illusion that, if not for their endless money and couture bags, they’d be just like us.

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But perhaps it was illuminating, as this entire endless year has been illuminating.

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But time and again the same problems are raised, summed up brutally by another senior figure: "His judgement on people has proven to be flawed, see endless staffing resets."

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Related Words

• boundless 
• ceaseless 
• constant 
• continual 
• continuous 
• countless 
• eternal 
• incessant 
• infinite 
• interminable 
• limitless 
• monotonous 
• never-ending 
• perpetual 
• unbroken 
• unending 
• unfathomable 
• uninterrupted 
• unlimited 
• untold