INFINITELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does infinitely mean? 

• INFINITELY (adverb)
  The adverb INFINITELY has 2 senses:

1. without bounds

2. continuing forever without end

  Familiarity information: INFINITELY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INFINITELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without bounds

Synonyms:

boundlessly; immeasurably; infinitely

Context example:

he is infinitely wealthy

Sense 2

Meaning:

Continuing forever without end

Synonyms:

endlessly; infinitely

Context example:

there are infinitely many possibilities

Antonym:

finitely (with a finite limit)

Pertainym:

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

 Context examples 

But the sea, having upon it the additional agitation of the whole night, was infinitely more terrific than when I had seen it last.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But greater than that, infinitely greater and greatest of all, he would have proved himself worthy of Ruth.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Only think! well, that must be infinitely provoking!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

He particularly built upon a very happy summer and autumn there this year; he felt that it would be so: he depended upon it; a summer and autumn infinitely superior to the last.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The development for which my friend had asked came in a quicker and an infinitely more tragic form than he could have imagined.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But still, there certainly were a dreadful multitude of ugly women in Bath; and as for the men! they were infinitely worse.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The observations of her uncle and aunt now began; and each of them pronounced him to be infinitely superior to anything they had expected.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I felt that she was infinitely dearer to me than any other woman in the world, and that I was using her infamously.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

When I described Lucy's symptoms—the same as before, but infinitely more marked—he looked very grave, but said nothing.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

In the Wild he had hunted live meat that was infinitely timid, and he knew the advantage of surprise.

(White Fang, by Jack London)