adv ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Adverb

1. 1
   In an endless manner; continuously without limit.

   "The artists are forced endlessly to carve figures of elephants and leographs of chinthes."

Adverb

1. 1
   continuing forever without end wordnet
2. 2
   with unflagging resolve wordnet
3. 3
   all the time; seemingly without stopping wordnet
4. 4
   (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

infinitelyceaselesslycontinuallyinterminablyad infinitumagain and again

Example

More examples

"The schoolboys teased each other endlessly."

Etymology

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

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