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Endless   /ˈɛndləs/   Listen
Endless

adjective
1.
Tiresomely long; seemingly without end.  Synonyms: eternal, interminable.  "An endless conversation" , "The wait seemed eternal" , "Eternal quarreling" , "An interminable sermon"
2.
Infinitely great in number.
3.
Having no known beginning and presumably no end.  Synonyms: dateless, sempiternal.  "Time is endless" , "Sempiternal truth"
4.
Having the ends united so as to form a continuous whole.



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"Endless" Quotes from Famous Books



... of matter opposed to the creative." I shall refer the reader to Plutarch's entertaining treatise on Isis and Osiris; but to quote authorities from Herodotus down to the Apologetic Fathers, would be endless. ...
— Prometheus Bound and Seven Against Thebes • Aeschylus

... we are attached to the past. We study what has always been done, and do it over again—war and injustice. Some day perhaps humanity will succeed in ridding itself of the ghost of the past. Let us hope that some day we shall emerge from this endless epoch of massacre and misery. What else is there ...
— The Inferno • Henri Barbusse

... consent of a young man who will soon be the last of the Mauprats; for the chevalier has not many days to wait before he will receive the heavenly reward due to his virtues; and as for myself, I cannot avoid the punishment I am about to seek, except by falling back into the endless night of the cloister. I speak of Bernard Mauprat; I will not call him my nephew, for if he heard me he would blush to think that he bore this shameful title. I heard of his return from America, and this news decided me to undertake the journey at the ...
— Mauprat • George Sand

... Mahommed, who treacherously assassinated him. Somewhat humiliating terms were arranged, and the English force of 4,000 soldiers, with 12,000 camp-followers, proceeded to withdraw from Cabul, harassed by the enemy; after endless casualties, General Elphinstone, who was in command, with the women and children, became captives, and one man alone, of the 16,000—Dr Brydon—reached Jellalabad to tell ...
— The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843) • Queen Victoria

... when he could not keep on going as fast and as long as formerly. There were days when he found hardly anything at all to eat. The endless ties passing under him began to make him dizzy and faint. His long hair was matted; his ribs showed; his eyes grew haggard. It was a wonder the young man knew him for ...
— Frank of Freedom Hill • Samuel A. Derieux


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