endless

1. 1.

   tiresomely long; seemingly without end

   “endless debates”

   “an endless conversation”

   “the wait seemed eternal”

   “eternal quarreling”

   “an interminable sermon”

   Synonymseternalinterminable

   Similarlong
2. 2.

   infinitely great in number

   “endless waves”

   Similarinfinite
3. 3.

   having no known beginning and presumably no end

   “the dateless rise and fall of the tides”

   “time is endless”

   “sempiternal truth”

   Synonymsdatelesssempiternal

   Similarinfinite
4. 4.

   having the ends united so as to form a continuous whole

   “an endless chain”

   Similarcontinuous

Other forms of endless

comparative

endlesser·

superlative

endlessest·

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.

Questions about endless

What does endless mean?

endless means "tiresomely long; seemingly without end". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in endless?

endless has 2 syllables: end-less. The stress falls on "end". In IPA it is /ˈɛndləs/.

What is another word for endless?

Close synonyms include eternal, interminable, dateless, sempiternal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is endless a common word?

endless is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.