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UNENDING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unending mean?
• UNENDING (adjective)
The adjective UNENDING has 1 sense:
1. continuing forever or indefinitely
Familiarity information: UNENDING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Continuing forever or indefinitely
Synonyms:
aeonian; ageless; eonian; eternal; everlasting; perpetual; unceasing; unending
Context example:
the unending bliss of heaven
Similar:
lasting; permanent (continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place)
Context examples
To give point to unending pursuit of the leader, Mit-sah favoured him over the other dogs.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The result was a beautiful and unending family quarrel.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
They were both shadows, and this was the unending limbo of toil.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The days and nights are all a wonder and a wild delight, and though I have little time from my dreary work, I steal odd moments to gaze and gaze at the unending glory of what I never dreamed the world possessed.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The stir of the life that was in him, the play of his muscles, was an unending happiness.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Day after day, for days unending, Buck toiled in the traces.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Time! Time! Time! was his unending plaint.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Besides my work in the cabin, with its four small state-rooms, I was supposed to be his assistant in the galley, and my colossal ignorance concerning such things as peeling potatoes or washing greasy pots was a source of unending and sarcastic wonder to him.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
For that matter, life and footing were synonymous in this unending warfare with the pack, and none knew it better than White Fang.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Dave and Sol-leks alone were unaltered, though they were made irritable by the unending squabbling.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
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