endless
//ˈɛndlɪs//
Definitions
1.Having no end.
- 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.
2.Extending indefinitely.
3.Too much or many to be exhausted; an extremely high number or amount of; immeasurable, innumerable.
- 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.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3968
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
From Middle English endeles
From Old English endelēas (“endless”)
From Proto-Germanic *andijalausaz (“endless”), equivalent to end + -less.