NEVER-ENDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does never-ending mean? 

• NEVER-ENDING (adjective)
  The adjective NEVER-ENDING has 1 sense:

1. uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing

  Familiarity information: NEVER-ENDING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEVER-ENDING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing

Synonyms:

ceaseless; constant; incessant; never-ending; perpetual; unceasing; unremitting

Context example:

unremitting demands of hunger

Similar:

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

 Context examples 

Scientists at Rutgers University have developed a technique to turn proteins into never-ending patterns that look like flowers, trees or snowflakes.

(New technique helps engineer water filters, human tissues, National Science Foundation)

Then blisters came, in a painful and never-ending procession, and I had a great burn on my forearm, acquired by losing my balance in a roll of the ship and pitching against the galley stove.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

In the Sorrows of Werter, besides the interest of its simple and affecting story, so many opinions are canvassed and so many lights thrown upon what had hitherto been to me obscure subjects that I found in it a never-ending source of speculation and astonishment.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Promising to be with them the whole of the following morning, therefore, she closed the fatigues of the present by a toilsome walk to Camden Place, there to spend the evening chiefly in listening to the busy arrangements of Elizabeth and Mrs Clay for the morrow's party, the frequent enumeration of the persons invited, and the continually improving detail of all the embellishments which were to make it the most completely elegant of its kind in Bath, while harassing herself with the never-ending question, of whether Captain Wentworth would come or not?

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)