Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Being or seeming to be without an end or limit; boundless.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not ending; having no end.
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- adjective Not
ending ; having no end.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective continuing forever or indefinitely
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Examples
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The resurgence of ethnic or sectarian conflicts; the growth of secessionist movements, insurgencies, and failed states – all these things have increasingly trapped civilians in unending chaos.
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I'll admit I was thinking earlier that being stuck in unending, unbearable summer must be just as bad as the same for winter (and probably worse for me, as I cannot manage heat at all), but ... still.
skittledog: January skittledog 2009
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A good average pile, by the time it was delivered on the ground, cost a twenty-dollar gold piece, and these piles were used in unending thousands.
Chapter XX 2010
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Shaggy gray-beards, sixty feet from trough to crest, leapt out of the windward murky gray, and in unending procession rushed upon the
CHAPTER XXXIV 2010
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My long-ago mothers left the trees and caves, exposing their small, fleshy bodies to savannah risk, building houses of clay and straw, planting grain, inventing grammar and nouns in unending torrents, and I feel like I owe it to them to keep on truckin ', evolutionarily-wise.
IMAGINE MY SURPRISE Maggie Jochild 2007
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Quebec sovereigntists will go on in unending maudlin terms about this betrayal.
i'm just saying 2005
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Shaggy gray-beards, sixty feet from trough to crest, leapt out of the windward murky gray, and in unending procession rushed upon the
Chapter 34 1914
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A good average pile, by the time it was delivered on the ground, cost a twenty-dollar gold piece, and these piles were used in unending thousands.
Chapter XX 1910
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Our relationship, if you can call an unending cycle of ecstasy, pain, breakup, and reunion a relationship, accomplished the same thing the shuttle-bus conversation did: it was a form of simultaneous action and rehearsal.
Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010
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Our relationship, if you can call an unending cycle of ecstasy, pain, breakup, and reunion a relationship, accomplished the same thing the shuttle-bus conversation did: it was a form of simultaneous action and rehearsal.
Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010
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