endless

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/
Audio (US) (file)
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
(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.

Synonyms

(having no end): unending; see also Thesaurus:endless
(extending indefinitely): eternal, infinite, unlimited; see also Thesaurus:infinite or Thesaurus:eternal

Antonyms

Derived terms

Translations

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

indefinite

Catalan: inacabable
Danish: uendelig (da)
Dutch: oneindig (nl), grenzeloos (nl)
Finnish: loputon (fi), loppumaton (fi), päättymätön (fi)
Georgian: განუსაზღვრელი (ganusazɣvreli), უსაზღვრო (usazɣvro)
German: unbegrenzt (de), unbeschränkt (de), unendlich (de)
Greek: ατελείωτος (el) (ateleíotos), ατέλειωτος (el) (atéleiotos)
Latvian: bezgalīgs
Polish: bezkresny (pl)
Romanian: nesfârșit (ro)

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Translations to be checked

French: ^{(please verify)} infini (fr)
Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} bezkrajno, ^{(please verify)} bezkrajna, ^{(please verify)} bezkrajni
Turkish: ^{(please verify)} sonsuz (tr), ^{(please verify)} ölümsüz (tr), ^{(please verify)} ebedi (tr)

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