termless
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]termless (comparative more termless, superlative most termless)
- Not terminating; having no end, limit, or boundary
- 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
- termless joys
- 1900, Mark Twain, The man that corrupted Hadleyburg, and other essays and stories, page 187:
- In a few hours I shall be one of a nameless horde plodding the snowy solitudes of Russia, under the lash, and bound for that land of mystery and misery and termless oblivion, Siberia!
- inexpressible; indescribable
- 1609, William Shakespeare, “A Louers Complaint”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
- termless skin
Synonyms
[edit]- (not terminating): unending; see also Thesaurus:endless or Thesaurus:continuous
- (inexpressible): indicible, ineffable; see also Thesaurus:indescribable
Translations
[edit]not terminating
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