endlessly

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/ˈɛndləsli/

adverb

In an endless manner; continuously without limit.

Less commonScrabble 13

Meanings

adverbendlessly (comparative more endlessly, superlative most endlessly)

comparative more endlessly · superlative most endlessly

  1. In an endless manner; continuously without limit.

    The artists are forced endlessly to carve figures of elephants and leographs of chinthes.

    1998, Feroz Kapadia, South East Asia: Burma, Cambodia, Anmol publications, page 85
    2 more examples

    Endlessly I'm counting down the days When you will come my way Endlessly I fall asleep to dream And you're here again it seems, endlessly

    2010, “Endlessly”, in Endlessly, performed by Duffy

    Even though Houston’s moment was already fading by the late 2000s, the city’s hip-hop culture proved to be endlessly portable and disseminatable.

    2015 August 9, Jon Caramanica, “Pimp C in a Journalist’s Back Pages”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 01 Nov 2021

    Synonyms: ceaselessly, incessantly, nonstop, ceaselessly, consecutively, constantly, continently, continually

Synonyms & antonyms

More synonyms by meaning

adverbcontinuing forever without end

Similar

adverball the time; seemingly without stopping

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Old Englishendelēaslīċe
  2. Middle Englishendelesly
  3. Englishendlessly

From Middle English endelesly, from Old English endelēaslīċe; equivalent to endless + -ly.

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 不休, 不斷地 /不断地
  • 不休 (bùxiū)in an endless manner
  • 不斷地 /不断地 (bùduàn de)in an endless manner
  • 不已 (bùyǐ)in an endless manner
Esperanto senfine
  • senfinein an endless manner
Finnish loputtomasti
  • loputtomastiin an endless manner
French indéfiniment, sans fin
  • indéfinimentin an endless manner
  • sans finin an endless manner
German endlos
  • endlosin an endless manner
Greek ατέλειωτα
  • ατέλειωτα (atéleiota)in an endless manner
Indonesian seterusnya
  • seterusnyain an endless manner
Irish de shíor
  • de shíorin an endless manner
Italian infinitamente
  • infinitamentein an endless manner
Japanese 際限なく
  • 際限なく (saigen naku)in an endless manner
Polish bez końca, bezkreśnie
  • bez końcain an endless manner
  • bezkreśniein an endless manner
Romanian nesfârșit
  • nesfârșitin an endless manner
Russian бесконе́чно
  • бесконе́чно (beskonéčno)in an endless manner
Spanish sin fin, interminablemente
  • sin finin an endless manner
  • interminablementein an endless manner
Cite this entry
APA

endlessly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/endlessly

MLA

“endlessly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/endlessly. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “endlessly,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/endlessly.

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