Interminable
adj, noun
adj, noun ·5 syllables ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A repeating decimal. dated
Adjective
- 1 Existing or occurring without interruption or end; ceaseless, unending.
"After supper Sir Pitt Crawley began to smoke his pipe; and when it became quite dark, he lighted the rushlight in the tin candlestick, and producing from an interminable pocket a huge mass of papers, began reading them, and putting them in order."
Adjective
- 1 tiresomely long; seemingly without end wordnet
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More examples"The interminable border wars between England and Scotland came to a close."
Etymology
From Middle English interminable, from Middle French interminable and its etymon Late Latin interminābilis. By surface analysis, in- + terminable.
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