ENDLESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does endless mean? 

• ENDLESS (adjective)
  The adjective ENDLESS has 4 senses:

1. tiresomely long; seemingly without end

2. infinitely great in number

3. having no known beginning and presumably no end

4. having the ends united so as to form a continuous whole

  Familiarity information: ENDLESS used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENDLESS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tiresomely long; seemingly without end

Synonyms:

endless; eternal; interminable

Context example:

an interminable sermon

Similar:

long (primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified)

Derivation:

endlessness (the property of being (or seeming to be) without end)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Infinitely great in number

Context example:

endless waves

Similar:

infinite (having no limits or boundaries in time or space or extent or magnitude)

Derivation:

endlessness (the property of being (or seeming to be) without end)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Having no known beginning and presumably no end

Synonyms:

dateless; endless; sempiternal

Context example:

sempiternal truth

Similar:

infinite (having no limits or boundaries in time or space or extent or magnitude)

Derivation:

endlessness (the property of being (or seeming to be) without end)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Having the ends united so as to form a continuous whole

Context example:

an endless chain

Similar:

continuous; uninterrupted (continuing in time or space without interruption)

Derivation:

endlessness (the property of being (or seeming to be) without end)

 Context examples 

And there are other circumstances which I am not at liberty—which it is not worth while to relate; but his lies about the whole Pemberley family are endless.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

That night, when I had finished an endless amount of work, I was sent to sleep in the steerage, where I made up a spare bunk.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It required much thinking and endless patience on the part of Weedon Scott to accomplish this.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Meanwhile, their opposite hemispheres are gripped by endless nights.

(Water Is Destroyed, Then Reborn in Ultrahot Jupiters, NASA/JPL)

Outside the accretion disk, materials are continuously pumped from all directions to the center by gravity to feed the black hole with an endless appetite.

(Astronomers Study How Quasars Are Powered by Accretion Disks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

There are endless difficulties, especially in leaving the city.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I enlarged upon many other topics, which the natural desire of endless life, and sublunary happiness, could easily furnish me with.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

This same full moon will also signal Neptune, the planet of endless love, but also of creativity.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The men made snowshoes, hunted fresh meat for the larder, and in the long evenings played endless games of whist and pedro.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

My poor husband would sit pale and listless, listening to the endless raving upon politics and upon social questions which made up our visitor’s conversation.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)