interminable

Existing or occurring without interruption or end; ceaseless, unending.

Adjective

  1. Existing or occurring without interruption or end; ceaseless, unending.
    • After supper Sir Pitt Crawley began to smoke his pipe; and when it became quite dark, he lighted the rushlight in the tin candlestick, and producing from an interminable pocket a huge mass of papers, began reading them,...
    • The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway. - 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New...
    • It was now a beautiful, moonlit night. The air was crisp and invigorating. Behind them lay the interminable vista of the desert, dotted here and there with an occasional oasis. - 1913 June–December, Edgar Rice...

Origin

From Middle English interminable, from Middle French interminable and its etymon Late Latin interminābilis. By surface analysis, in- + terminable.

Forms

more interminable most interminable

Derived

interminableness interminably

Noun

  1. A repeating decimal.

Forms

interminables