Meanings
comparative more unending · superlative most unending
- Not ending; having no end; eternal.
At any rate I was very sure that I would not attempt to attain unending life.
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC1 more example
As he looked back and thought of the recurrent seasons falling upon the world it seemed to him that they had come to the count, over and over, of Hard Times, Hard Times, Hard Times, more monotonous, more unending, than the count of the soldiers, muttering as they marched, years before, in the town which had before been called only the crossroads.
1930, John Donald Wade, The Life and Death of Cousin Lucius; republished as Donald Davidson, editor, Selected Essays and Other Writings of John Donald Wade, 1966, page 26Synonyms: termless
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveNot ending; having no end; eternal.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivecontinuing forever or indefinitely
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Middle Englishending
- Englishending
- Englishunending
Translations
Chinese Cantonese 絡繹 /络绎
- 絡繹 /络绎 (lok³ jik⁶)never reaching an end
Chinese Mandarin 絡繹 /络绎
- 絡繹 /络绎 (luòyì)never reaching an end
Dutch oneindig
- oneindignever reaching an end
Esperanto senfina
- senfinanever reaching an end
Finnish loputon
- loputonnever reaching an end
French éternel, sans fin
- éternelnever reaching an end
- sans finnever reaching an end
- infininever reaching an end
German endlos, nicht enden wollend
- endlosnever reaching an end
- nicht enden wollendnever reaching an end
- ewignever reaching an end
Greek ατελείωτος, ατέλειωτος
- ατελείωτος (ateleíotos)never reaching an end
- ατέλειωτος (atéleiotos)never reaching an end
Hebrew אֵינְסוֹפִי, אֵין־סוֹפִי
- אֵינְסוֹפִי (einsofí)never reaching an end
- אֵין־סוֹפִי (ein-sofí)never reaching an end
Hindi अंतहीन, अनंत
- अंतहीन (anthīn)never reaching an end
- अनंत (anant)never reaching an end
Spanish interminable
- interminablenever reaching an end
Turkish sonsuz
- sonsuznever reaching an end
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Cite this entry
unending. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unending
“unending.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unending. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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