Meanings
comparative more endlessly · superlative most endlessly
- 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 852 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 DuffyEven 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 2021Synonyms: ceaselessly, incessantly, nonstop, ceaselessly, consecutively, constantly, continently, continually
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbIn an endless manner; continuously without limit.
More synonyms by meaning
adverbcontinuing forever without end
adverbwith unflagging resolve
adverball the time; seemingly without stopping
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Old Englishendelēaslīċe
- Middle Englishendelesly
- Englishendlessly
From Middle English endelesly, from Old English endelēaslīċe; equivalent to endless + -ly.
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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
endlessly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/endlessly
“endlessly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/endlessly. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “endlessly,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/endlessly.
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