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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

endlessly en · ADV

Pronunciation

  • /ˈɛndləsli/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle English endelesly, from Old English endelēaslīċe; equivalent to endless + -ly.

Meanings

  1. In an endless manner; continuously without limit.
    • Endlessly I'm counting down the days When you will come my way Endlessly I fall asleep to dream And you're here again it seems, endlessly 2010, “Endlessly”, in Endlessly, performed by Duffy:
    • The artists are forced endlessly to carve figures of elephants and leographs of chinthes. 1998, Feroz Kapadia, South East Asia: Burma, Cambodia, Anmol publications, page 85:
    • Even though Houston’s moment was already fading by the late 2000s, the city’s hip-hop culture proved to be endlessly portable and disseminatable. 2015 August 9, Jon Caramanica, “Pimp C in a Journalist’s Back Pages”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 01 Nov 2021:

Forms

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most endlessly Degree=Sup lexicographic
more endlessly Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Relateds

indefinitely

Synonyms

incessantly · successively · relentlessly · ceaselessly · never-endingly · incessantly · infinitely · eternally · ever · unbrokenly · continuously · persistently · uninterruptedly · nonstop · extendedly · unintermittedly · unstoppingly · constantly · continently · nonstop · ceaselessly · everlastingly · unrelentingly · continually · unceasingly · ongoingly · unendingly · steadily · unrelievedly · endlessly · perpetually · consecutively · unremittingly

Translations (20)

fr sans fin (in an endless manner) · el ατέλειωτα (in an endless manner) · cmn 不休 (in an endless manner) · pl bezkreśnie (in an endless manner) · es sin fin (in an endless manner) · id seterusnya (in an endless manner) · es interminablemente (in an endless manner) · fi loputtomasti (in an endless manner) · ga de shíor (in an endless manner) · cmn 不斷地 /不断地 (in an endless manner) · izh otsattomast (in an endless manner) · eo senfine (in an endless manner) · ja 際限なく (in an endless manner) · pl bez końca (in an endless manner) · ro nesfârșit (in an endless manner) · cmn 不已 (in an endless manner) · it infinitamente (in an endless manner) · ru бесконе́чно (in an endless manner) · fr indéfiniment (in an endless manner) · de endlos (in an endless manner)