Interminable \In*ter"mi*na*ble\, a. [L. interminabilis: cf. F.
interminable. See Terminate.]
Without termination; admitting no limit; boundless; endless;
wearisomely protracted; as, interminable space or duration;
interminable sufferings; an interminable sermon.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
That wild interminable waste of waves. --Grainger.
Syn: Boundless; endless; limitless; illimitable;
immeasurable; infinite; unbounded; unlimited.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
interminable
adj : tiresomely long; seemingly without end; "endless debates";
"an endless conversation"; "the wait seemed eternal";
"eternal quarreling"; "an interminable sermon" [syn: endless,
eternal]
WordNet (r) 2.0
136 Moby Thesaurus words for "interminable":
a mile long, ageless, all-comprehensive, all-inclusive,
articulated, boundless, catenated, ceaseless, coeternal,
concatenated, connected, constant, continual, continued,
continuing, continuous, countless, cyclical, dateless, direct,
drawn-out, endless, eternal, eterne, ever-being, ever-durable,
ever-during, everlasting, everliving, exhaustless, extended,
extending everywhere, extensive, far-flung, far-reaching, fargoing,
featureless, gapless, illimitable, illimited, immeasurable,
immediate, immemorial, immense, incalculable, incessant,
incomprehensible, indestructible, inexhaustible, infinite,
infinitely continuous, innumerable, interminate, joined, jointless,
languishing, lasting, lengthened, lengthy, limitless, lingering,
linked, long, long-continuing, long-drawn, long-drawn-out,
long-pending, long-winded, longish, longsome, marathon,
measureless, monotonous, never-ceasing, never-ending, no end of,
nonstop, nonterminating, nonterminous, olamic, overlong,
perdurable, perennial, periodic, permanent, perpetual, prolonged,
protracted, recurrent, repetitive, round-the-clock, running,
seamless, sempiternal, serried, sesquipedal, sesquipedalian,
shoreless, smooth, spun-out, stable, steady, straight,
stretched-out, sumless, tall, termless, timeless, twenty-four-hour,
unbounded, unbroken, unceasing, uncircumscribed, undifferentiated,
unending, unfathomable, uniform, unintermitted, unintermittent,
unintermitting, uninterrupted, universal, unlimited, unmeasurable,
unmeasured, unnumbered, unplumbed, unrelieved, unremitting,
unstopped, untold, without bound, without end, without limit,
without measure, without number
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
endless, eternal
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