(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."
Interminable
Definition:
(a.) Without termination; admitting no limit; boundless; endless; wearisomely protracted; as, interminable space or duration; interminable sufferings.
Example Sentences:
(1) And she had a very good point, because Twine is interminable.
(2) Re-examining Sigmund Freud's 'Analysis terminable and interminable' (1937) from the perspective of child analysis highlights the importance of developmental assessment and developmental forces in psychoanalysis.
(3) Those innocuous phrases often mask a world of private pain: tearful interviews, angry confrontations, threats of violence, shocking revelations and interminable waiting, waiting, waiting.
(4) But financial constraints were arduous and interminable, and he declined the invitation to renew his contract.
(5) For one last time, the two candidates came on stage together after weeks of facing off at what often felt like interminable hustings.
(6) ET 10 min: Am I the only person who found Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy interminably dull?
(7) A botched attempt to bully Rosie Webster into testifying at Fiz's interminable trial led to a thrilling car chase, which involved a displaced traffic cone and speeds of up to 30mph.
(8) Oscar planners have sought to shorten the sometimes interminably long show and have tried new ways to present awards in the hope of livening things up.
(9) This, my friends, is what it's really like to be a film journalist: the sweaty people carrier, the surly heavies, the interminable sitting around....
(10) On the one hand an interminable mud-slinging saga featuring at its centre a scarcely credible pair.
(11) But, despite interminable legal proceedings, their efforts have so far come to nothing, partly because studies commissioned by the UK government have concluded that a resettlement programme on what is officially known as the British Indian Ocean Territory was just not feasible.
(12) The debate over regional anesthesia and general anesthesia with respect to relative risk in different classes of patients will probably be interminable until studies addressing the issue begin to specify the treatment protocols more carefully and to control as many variables as possible.
(13) Radiohead's interminable promotion of their patchy debut, Pablo Honey, would have tried anyone's patience.
(14) At first we all thought it was a reaction to the near-fatal road accident of his younger daughter Kate - he and Mari had watched over her as she lay in what seemed an interminable coma.
(15) The updates on the Kickstarter page are a catalogue of little disasters and triumphs: broken moulds, patchy GPS reception, interminable Chinese holidays and, finally, huge stacks of boxes ready to ship.
(16) The question is raised as to whether the analysis of the generation of sound by a laser beam moving over a water surface at the sound speed c for an interminable time period requires consideration of nonlinear effects.
(17) The committee said successive federation chairmen have become "enmired in interminable internecine power-struggles that would not have been out of place in a medieval court".
(18) It certainly seemed that way, and it was gardening, after all, that got him through those seemingly interminable years on Robben Island.
(19) There was no statistically significant difference between the ICD users and nonusers as stratified by SAECG classification regardless of whether or not the interminate studies were included or excluded from the analysis.
(20) Freud pondered the nature of termination as well as incomplete, completed, periodic, and interminable analysis.