Interminable

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Interminable \In*ter"mi*na*ble\, a. [L. interminabilis: cf. F.
     interminable. See {Terminate}.]
     Without termination; admitting no limit; boundless; endless;
     wearisomely protracted; as, interminable space or duration;
     interminable sufferings; an interminable sermon.
     [1913 Webster +PJC]


  
           That wild interminable waste of waves.   --Grainger.
  
     Syn: Boundless; endless; limitless; illimitable;
          immeasurable; infinite; unbounded; unlimited.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  interminable
       adj : tiresomely long; seemingly without end; "endless debates";
             "an endless conversation"; "the wait seemed eternal";
             "eternal quarreling"; "an interminable sermon" [syn: {endless},
              {eternal}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  136 Moby Thesaurus words for "interminable":
     a mile long, ageless, all-comprehensive, all-inclusive,
     articulated, boundless, catenated, ceaseless, coeternal,
     concatenated, connected, constant, continual, continued,
     continuing, continuous, countless, cyclical, dateless, direct,
     drawn-out, endless, eternal, eterne, ever-being, ever-durable,
     ever-during, everlasting, everliving, exhaustless, extended,
     extending everywhere, extensive, far-flung, far-reaching, fargoing,
     featureless, gapless, illimitable, illimited, immeasurable,
     immediate, immemorial, immense, incalculable, incessant,
     incomprehensible, indestructible, inexhaustible, infinite,
     infinitely continuous, innumerable, interminate, joined, jointless,
     languishing, lasting, lengthened, lengthy, limitless, lingering,
     linked, long, long-continuing, long-drawn, long-drawn-out,
     long-pending, long-winded, longish, longsome, marathon,
     measureless, monotonous, never-ceasing, never-ending, no end of,
     nonstop, nonterminating, nonterminous, olamic, overlong,
     perdurable, perennial, periodic, permanent, perpetual, prolonged,
     protracted, recurrent, repetitive, round-the-clock, running,
     seamless, sempiternal, serried, sesquipedal, sesquipedalian,
     shoreless, smooth, spun-out, stable, steady, straight,
     stretched-out, sumless, tall, termless, timeless, twenty-four-hour,
     unbounded, unbroken, unceasing, uncircumscribed, undifferentiated,
     unending, unfathomable, uniform, unintermitted, unintermittent,
     unintermitting, uninterrupted, universal, unlimited, unmeasurable,
     unmeasured, unnumbered, unplumbed, unrelieved, unremitting,
     unstopped, untold, without bound, without end, without limit,
     without measure, without number