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never-ending en · ADJ

Etymology

From never + ending.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Having no end or being endless.
    • The story of upkeep has been never-ending. Between 1997-2000, a major programme of maintenance entailed replacing superstructure timbers - 50 main rail beams were replaced with greenheart, along with a similar number of edge beams. 2020 August 12, Andrew Mourant, “The tide is turning for a Victorian wonder”, in Rail, page 51:
    • But fans’ emotions are no longer filtered through ticket or album sales; they’re heard directly, constantly, at all hours, on all the platforms people visit to generate and extinguish bad feelings in a never-ending cycle. 2022 October 25, Willy Staley, “The Try Guys and the Prison of Online Fame”, in The New York Times Magazine:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
neverending alternative lexicographic
never ending alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

never-endingly · never-ending September · neverendum

Relateds

neverender

Synonyms

eternal · unending

Translations (26)

sv oändlig (having no end) · hi अंतहीन (having no end) · el ατελείωτος (having no end) · tr sonu olmayan (having no end) · ca interminable (having no end) · grc ἄπαυστος (having no end) · es de nunca acabar (having no end) · fr interminable (having no end) · es interminable (having no end) · el ατέλειωτος (having no end) · hi अनंत (having no end) · grc ἀνήνυτος (having no end) · sv ändlös (having no end) · fi loputon (having no end) · bg вечен (having no end) · tr hiç bitmeyen (having no end) · bg безкраен (having no end) · tr bitmeyen (having no end) · de unaufhörlich (having no end) · fr à n'en plus finir (having no end) · hy անվերջ (having no end) · et lõputu (having no end) · ru бесконе́чный (having no end) · ro interminabil (having no end) · tr sonsuz (having no end) · et lõpmatu (having no end)