endless
Americanadjective
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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
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made continuous, as by joining the two ends of a single length.
an endless chain or belt.
adjective
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having or seeming to have no end; eternal or infinite
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continuing too long or continually recurring
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formed with the ends joined
an endless belt
Related Words
See eternal.
Other Word Forms
- endlessly adverb
- endlessness noun
- quasi-endless adjective
- quasi-endlessly adverb
Etymology
Origin of endless
First recorded before 900; Middle English endelees, Old English endelēas. See end 1, -less
Example Sentences
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He said his niece spends too much time on TikTok, which popularized a platform that provides endless scrolling of ultra-short-format videos.
From Barron's
This Sunday's clash is no different, with endless column inches dedicated to the prodigious rise of New England's Drake Maye and the redemption arc of Seattle's Sam Darnold.
From Barron's
Scarlet wakes up in the Otherworld, an endless, arid landscape with an ocean for sky where a dragon roams.
From Los Angeles Times
And you can expect to hear Das Deutschlandlied played on an endless loop again in Cortina d’Ampezzo, where the luge competition gets underway Saturday.
From Los Angeles Times
Etta, now pregnant, had an endless supply of things for me to fix, though sometimes I suspected she was ripping seams and popping buttons on purpose just to give my old hands something to do.
From Literature
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