(a.) 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.
(a.) Infinite; excessive; unlimited.
(a.) Without profitable end; fruitless; unsatisfying.
(a.) Void of design; objectless; as, an endless pursuit.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was a moment’s relief in what is becoming an endless trudge on the road to recovery.
(2) Sometimes it can seem as if the history of the City is the history of its crises and disasters, from the banking crisis of 1825 (which saw undercapitalised banks collapse – perhaps the closest historic parallel to the contemporary credit crunch), through the Spanish panic of 1835, the railway bust of 1837, the crash of Overend Gurney, the Kaffir boom, the Westralian boom, the Marconi scandal, and so on and on – a theme with endless variations.
(3) President Obama on Thursday proclaimed to be against endless wars, even as he announced that the US will continue to wage one.
(4) Endless utilitarian apartment blocks and gigantic hotels sprawl seemingly at random in the so-called "coastal cluster".
(5) For the moment, the priority is managing this endless human tide.
(6) Harping on endlessly about a woman’s hair, legs and handbag instead of her ideas and achievements can be horribly belittling, a way of refusing to take her seriously as a professional.
(7) As the political pendulum has swung over the decades, these competing archetypes have spurred endless innovations from inflation-linked bonds to free TV licences.
(8) Abbado sees this as meaning that music is both destroyed and redeemed by its temporality: it exists and is extinguished in a moment, but has the endless possibility of being created anew in time.
(9) Neil Coyle is MP for Bermondsey and Old Southwark Matthew Pennycook: ‘The overwhelming majority respect the leadership result’ Facebook Twitter Pinterest Matthew Pennycook Ignore the endless speculation; the Labour party is not about to split.
(10) The endless immaturity of the baby-boom generation must surely be coming to a close, as we learn, at last, to grow up.
(11) Baghdad and Erbil have an endless list of grievances, ranging from border controls and the integration of the peshmerga to the Iraqi national army, to the delimitation of Kurdistan and the sharing of wealth between the centre and the autonomous region – especially oil.
(12) Some plump for Your Love , with its distinctive keyboard figure that subsequently turned up both on Candi Staton and the Source's endlessly reissued and covered 1991 hit You Got The Love and, of all things, psychedelic rock band Animal Collective's My Girls.
(13) Earlier this week, the New York representative Richard Hanna became the first Republican elected to Congress to endorse Clinton , writing in an op-ed that he considers Trump “deeply flawed in endless ways”.
(14) Wexford's endless war against clichés is hers, she admits.
(15) Now the emphasis is all on an endless cycle of marking homework, lesson plans and managing the behaviour of classes.
(16) The options for “transitional justice” are endless: South African-style truth and reconciliation, a prosecutorial tribunal, such as that handling former Yugoslavia, or something in between.
(17) Even more welcome is the slimming-down of the syllabus in the new draft, after teachers complained about the overloading of the old one with endless facts and dates; far too many to teach in the time available in schools.
(18) Development experts, so focused on their endless and crucial work, often neglect this area.
(19) She said: "There has been a huge amount of anguish and endless discussion of what more could have been done to save this boy.
(20) Papadopoulos said: "This crisis has taught us that we can't go on acting the way we did, living off loans, treating the state as an endless treasury to be raided, never thinking about our future."
Everlasting
Definition:
(a.) Lasting or enduring forever; exsisting or continuing without end; immoral; eternal.
(a.) Continuing indefinitely, or during a long period; perpetual; sometimes used, colloquially, as a strong intensive; as, this everlasting nonsence.
Example Sentences:
(1) After the war, Auerbach notes mournfully, the standardisation of ideas, and greater and greater specialisation of knowledge gradually narrowed the opportunities for the kind of investigative and everlastingly inquiring kind of philological work that he had represented; and, alas, it's an even more depressing fact that since Auerbach's death in 1957 both the idea and practice of humanistic research have shrunk in scope as well as in centrality.
(2) No species has a sacrosanct right to everlasting life and surely it would be better to die out while living free rather than appear in this endless circus.
(3) We have badly managed a resource believing it is everlasting.
(4) As a child, I accepted that he'd been to the realm of gods, a pure and everlasting place far beyond ordinary reach; rare adventurers such as him might be permitted to visit for a while, but when they left, the mountain would return to its timelessness.
(5) He had been questioning his own church too, specifically its contention that "all who did not know and love Jesus were condemned to everlasting damnation".
(6) Now they say the euro and the European Union are everlasting, but it is not.
(7) We hope this will lead to the release of all prisoners and establish a just and everlasting peace for everyone," he said.
(8) Yarrow, everlastings and birch leaf tea also possessed marked hypoglycemic and glycogen sparing properties.
(9) Charles ended his broadcast by saying: "Finally, I would just like to reinforce a point that I have been trying to make for many years now – that our country is incredibly lucky to have people like yourselves and that we owe you an everlasting debt of gratitude for all that you do and mean to us."
(10) You become aware of a colossal idea,” he wrote after visiting the International Exhibition, showcase of an all-conquering material culture: “You sense that it would require great and everlasting spiritual denial and fortitude in order not to submit, not to capitulate before the impression, not to bow to what is, and not to deify Baal, that is, not to accept the material world as your ideal.” However, as Dostoevsky saw it, the cost of such splendour and magnificence was a society dominated by the war of all against all, in which most people were condemned to be losers.
(11) Triumph sweeps caution away: they think they see Lib Dems vanquished, Labour departing the fray, boundary changes securing everlasting victory.
(12) Investigations into cattle mortalities suspected of being caused by the Woolly Everlasting Daisy (Helichrysum blandowskianum) revealed lesions of marked periacinar liver necrosis, vascular degeneration, widespread haemorrhages and oedema.
(13) What we could do instead is create a story of rising living standards, stronger communities and a more resilient society, embracing the challenge of poverty reduction – with everlasting benefits.
(14) Now it seems to mean sending an everlasting picture or mini-film of a bit of yourself – not usually an elbow – floating out into eternity, for anyone and everyone to see.
(15) The event is the paradigm of the everlasting fight of under-developped countries against powerful colonial metropolis.
(16) Note that eye, ‘tis rheum o’erflows; Pity’s flood there never rose, See those hands, ne’er stretched to save, Hands that took, but never gave: Keeper of Mammon’s iron chest, Lo, there she goes, unpitied and unblest, She goes, but not to realms of everlasting rest!
(17) One is to view it as a fatalistic destiny, bred into the darkest incestuous trends any infant is fighting against, and leading to unavoidable stigmata of everlasting nature.
(18) We have badly managed a resource believing it is everlasting - it isn’t It is bad news for some types of coral that don’t like the heat, and that used to thrive below the warmer layer of water.
(19) If we look at traumatism as a triggering respectively modifying factor it makes clear that we can not postulate an everlasting causation of headache by traumatism, but have to see posttraumatic headache in a fluent transition from trauma-etiology to a constitionally caused personality-etiology.
(20) Some were part of the grain of history and enacted elsewhere without New Labour administrations – notably Scotland and our partners in Europe; while others, including investment in schools and hospitals, were paid for through the private finance initiative, to the everlasting debt of the British taxpayer and generations to come.