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say it: IN-fuh-nuht
infinite is an adjective and noun meaning "having no limits or boundaries in time or space or extent or magnitude". It is pronounced /ˈɪnfənət/ — IN-fuh-nuht. It carries 5 recorded senses.
having no limits or boundaries in time or space or extent or magnitude
“the infinite ingenuity of man”
“infinite wealth”
(of verbs) not having tense, person, or number (as a participle or gerund or infinitive)
“infinite verb form”
grammar
too numerous to be counted
“countless hours”
“an infinite number of reasons”
“innumerable difficulties”
“the multitudinous seas”
“myriad stars”
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 infinite 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.