Hypertext Webster Gateway: "endless"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Endless \End"less\, a. [AS. endele['a]s. See {End}.]
1. Without end; having no end or conclusion; perpetual;
interminable; -- applied to length, and to duration; as,
an endless line; endless time; endless bliss; endless
praise; endless clamor.

2. Infinite; excessive; unlimited. --Shak.

3. Without profitable end; fruitless; unsatisfying. [R.]
``All loves are endless.'' --Beau. & Fl.

4. Void of design; objectless; as, an endless pursuit.

{Endless chain}, a chain which is made continuous by uniting
its two ends.

{Endless screw}. (Mech.) See under {Screw}.

Syn: Eternal; everlasting; interminable; infinite; unlimited;
incessant; perpetual; uninterrupted; continual;
unceasing; unending; boundless; undying; imperishable.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

endless
adj 1: tiresomely long; seemingly without end; "endless debates";
"an endless conversation"; "the wait seemed eternal";
"eternal quarreling"; "an interminable sermon" [syn: {eternal},
{interminable}]
2: infinitely great in number; "endless waves"
3: having no known beginning and presumably no end; "the
dateless rise and fall of the tides"; "time is endless";
"sempiternal truth" [syn: {dateless}, {sempiternal}]
4: having the ends united so as to form a continuous whole; "an
endless chain"
5: occurring so frequently as to seem ceaseless or
uninterrupted; "a child's incessant questions"; "your
perpetual (or continual) complaints" [syn: {incessant}, {perpetual}]


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