indefinitely
Britishadverb
Explanation
Use the adverb indefinitely to describe something that happens for an unlimited amount of time or to an unlimited extent. Kittens could bat around a ball of string indefinitely. When your cousin postpones her wedding indefinitely after her fiancé’s “business trip” to Las Vegas, you probably want to hold off on buying a gift. They may work things out, but sometimes people intend indefinitely to be synonymous with forever. Like, “We can’t keep fighting over that weekend I spent in Las Vegas indefinitely…”
Vocabulary lists containing indefinitely
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Example Sentences
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"Indefinitely delayed, Willa, a magical thinker, and Bill, a catastrophic one, find themselves just as attracted to and annoyed by one another as they did decades earlier," reads the movie's official synopsis.
From Salon • Aug. 30, 2023
“Closed Indefinitely for Reddit API Policy Change Protest — The musical community of reddit,” a message says on the r/music page, a community to discuss all things music-related.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2023
"Indefinitely banning rallies does to public communication in Tanzania what indefinitely banning television, or the internet, would do in the global north," he wrote.
From BBC • Feb. 1, 2023
Indefinitely, or for a predetermined amount of time?
From Slate • Jul. 22, 2020
It included an essay Wallace had written called “On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type.”
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
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