Dictionary

unending en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English ending English unending From un- + ending.

Meanings

1. Not ending; having no end; eternal.
   • At any rate I was very sure that I would not attempt to attain unending life. 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
   • As he looked back and thought of the recurrent seasons falling upon the world it seemed to him that they had come to the count, over and over, of Hard Times, Hard Times, Hard Times, more monotonous, more unending, than the count of the soldiers, muttering as they marched, years before, in the town which had before been called only the crossroads. 1930, John Donald Wade, The Life and Death of Cousin Lucius; republished as Donald Davidson, editor, Selected Essays and Other Writings of John Donald Wade, 1966, page 26:

Forms

Relateds

unendingly · ending · end · unendingness

Synonyms

termless (having no end)

Translations (29)

ota پاینده (never reaching an end) · fr éternel (never reaching an end) · hi अनंत (never reaching an end) · el ατέλειωτος (never reaching an end) · nl oneindig (never reaching an end) · fi loputon (never reaching an end) · de ewig (never reaching an end) · es interminable (never reaching an end) · cmn 絡繹 /络绎 (never reaching an end) · oc interminable (never reaching an end) · oc sensa fin (never reaching an end) · fr infini (never reaching an end) · el ατελείωτος (never reaching an end) · fr sans fin (never reaching an end) · oc infinit (never reaching an end) · ota ابدی (never reaching an end) · he אֵינְסוֹפִי (never reaching an end) · hi अंतहीन (never reaching an end) · he אֵין־סוֹפִי (never reaching an end) · ota صوڭسز (never reaching an end) · oc eternal (never reaching an end) · de nicht enden wollend (never reaching an end) · yue 絡繹 /络绎 (never reaching an end) · ota موبد (never reaching an end) · de endlos (never reaching an end) · ota دایم (never reaching an end) · tr sonsuz (never reaching an end) · oc etèrn (never reaching an end) · eo senfina (never reaching an end)