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INTERMINABLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does interminably mean? 

INTERMINABLY (adverb)
  The adverb INTERMINABLY has 1 sense:

1. all the time; seemingly without stoppingplay

  Familiarity information: INTERMINABLY used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


INTERMINABLY (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

All the time; seemingly without stopping

Synonyms:

endlessly; interminably

Context example:

her nagging went on endlessly

Pertainym:

interminable (tiresomely long; seemingly without end)


 Context examples 


He cried and cried interminably, and every fresh wail was greeted by bursts of laughter on the part of the man-animals.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Then there was a black-eyed restaurant waiter who was a theosophist, a union baker who was an agnostic, an old man who baffled all of them with the strange philosophy that what is is right, and another old man who discoursed interminably about the cosmos and the father-atom and the mother-atom.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But the god talked on interminably.

(White Fang, by Jack London)



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