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say it: END-luhs
endless is an adjective meaning "tiresomely long; seemingly without end". It is pronounced /ˈɛndləs/ — END-luhs. It carries 4 recorded senses.
tiresomely long; seemingly without end
“endless debates”
“an endless conversation”
“the wait seemed eternal”
“eternal quarreling”
“an interminable sermon”
having no known beginning and presumably no end
“the dateless rise and fall of the tides”
“time is endless”
“sempiternal truth”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for endless come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.