interminable

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: in=ter=mi=na=ble
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in NT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

interminable, 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]
"That wild interminable waste of waves."

Syn. -- Boundless; endless; limitless; illimitable; immeasurable; infinite; unbounded; unlimited.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

interminable, adj.
1 endless.
2 tediously long or habitual.
3 with no prospect of an end.

Derivative

interminableness n. interminably adv.

Etymology

ME f. OF interminable or LL interminabilis (as IN-(1), TERMINATE)

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

interminable

Infinity

N infinity, infinitude, infiniteness, perpetuity, boundlessness, infinite, immense, numberless, countless, sumless, measureless, innumerable, immeasurable, incalculable, illimitable, inexhaustible, interminable, unfathomable, unapproachable, exhaustless, indefinite, without number, without measure, without limit, without end, incomprehensible, limitless, endless, boundless, termless, untold, unnumbered, unmeasured, unbounded, unlimited, illimited, perpetual, infinitely, ad infinitum, as boundless as the sea.

Perpetuity

N perpetuity, eternity, everness, aye, sempiternity, immortality, athanasia, interminability, agelessness, everlastingness, perpetuation, continued existence, uninterrupted existence, perennity, permanence (durability), perpetual, eternal, everduring, everlasting, ever-living, ever- flowing, continual, sempiternal, coeternal, endless, unending, ceaseless, incessant, uninterrupted, indesinent, unceasing, endless, unending, interminable, having no end, unfading, evergreen, amaranthine, neverending, never-dying, never-fading, deathless, immortal, undying, imperishable, perpetually, always, ever, evermore, aye, for ever, for aye, till the end of the universe, forevermore, forever and a day, for ever and ever, in all ages, from age to age, without end, world without end, time without end, in secula seculorum, to the end of time, to the crack of doom, to the 'last syllable of recorded time', till doomsday, constantly, esto perpetuum, labitur et labetur in omne volubilis oevum, but thou shall flourish in immortal youth, Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought, her immortal part with angels lives, ohne Rast ora e sempre.

Length

N length, longitude, span, mileage, distance, line, bar, rule, stripe, streak, spoke, radius, lengthening, prolongation, production, protraction, tension, tensure, extension, line, nail, inch, hand, palm, foot, cubit, yard, ell, fathom, rood, pole, furlong, mile, league, chain, link, arpent, handbreadth, jornada, kos, vara, astronomical unit, AU, light- year, parsec, nanometer, nm, micron, micrometer, millimicron, millimeter, mm, centimeter, cm, meter, kilometer, km, pedometer, perambulator, scale, long, longsome, lengthy, wiredrawn, outstretched, lengthened, sesquipedalian, interminable, no end of, macrocolous, linear, lineal, longitudinal, oblong, as long as my arm, as long as today and tomorrow, unshortened &c (shorten), lengthwise, at length, longitudinally, endlong, along, tandem, in a line, in perspective, from end to end, from stem to stern, from head to foot, from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, from top to toe, fore and aft.