dictionary definitions for "endless"


From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:

  endless
      adj 1: tiresomely long; seemingly without end; "endless debates";
             "an endless conversation"; "the wait seemed eternal";
             "eternal quarreling"; "an interminable sermon" [syn:
             eternal, interminable]
      2: infinitely great in number; "endless waves"
      3: having no known beginning and presumably no end; "the
         dateless rise and fall of the tides"; "time is endless";
         "sempiternal truth" [syn: dateless, sempiternal]
      4: having the ends united so as to form a continuous whole; "an
         endless chain"
      5: occurring so frequently as to seem ceaseless or
         uninterrupted; "a child's incessant questions"; "your
         perpetual (or continual) complaints" [syn: incessant,
         perpetual]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Endless \End"less\, a. [AS. endele['a]s. See End.]
     1. Without end; having no end or conclusion; perpetual;
        interminable; -- applied to length, and to duration; as,
        an endless line; endless time; endless bliss; endless
        praise; endless clamor.
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     2. Infinite; excessive; unlimited. --Shak.
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     3. Without profitable end; fruitless; unsatisfying. [R.] "All
        loves are endless." --Beau. & Fl.
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     4. Void of design; objectless; as, an endless pursuit.
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     5. having a linear or ribbonlike form with the two ends
        connected together, such as in a circle, ellipse, torus,
        or any other closed loop. Belts or chains used in drive
        mechanisms are considered endless in this sense. See
        endless chain.
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     Endless chain, a chain which is made continuous by uniting
        its two ends.
  
     Endless screw. (Mech.) See under Screw.
  
     Syn: Eternal; everlasting; interminable; infinite; unlimited;
          incessant; perpetual; uninterrupted; continual;
          unceasing; unending; boundless; undying; imperishable.
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