Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Being or seeming to be without an end; endless: synonym: continual.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without termination; endless; having no limits or limitation; unending; long drawn out: as, interminable space or duration; interminable sufferings.
- Synonyms Limitless, illimitable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Without termination; admitting no limit; boundless; endless; wearisomely protracted.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Existing or occurring without
interruption or end;ceaseless ,unending .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective tiresomely long; seemingly without end
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Examples
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This used to be one of my favorite blogs; increasingly, it seems to have been taken over by one or more of those humorless, argumentative kids that could always be counted on to engage in interminable, pointless arguments with teachers in high school and college (not Harvard).
The Volokh Conspiracy » The William F. Buckley Clause of the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780 2010
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Those limits are what makes the granting of extra constitutional powers acceptable and less likely to result in interminable tyranny.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy 2010
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While waiting in interminable lines, the masses oohed.
Tom Doctoroff: Shanghai's World Expo: The Curtain Falls Tom Doctoroff 2010
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Michael, full grown, mature, was so merry-hearted an individual that he found all delight in interminable romps with Scraps.
CHAPTER XI 2010
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Those limits are what makes the granting of extra constitutional powers acceptable and less likely to result in interminable tyranny.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy 2010
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While waiting in interminable lines, the masses oohed.
Tom Doctoroff: Shanghai's World Expo: The Curtain Falls Tom Doctoroff 2010
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They will be involved in interminable and boring investigations or interrogations
Underserved Gaming Genres 1: Cop Fiction « Geek Related 2008
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I would class this a speculative fiction anyway, but there we start in interminable process of labelling, and lets not have that pointless discussion here.
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville « I Can’t Stop Reading! 2008
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I would class this a speculative fiction anyway, but there we start in interminable process of labelling, and lets not have that pointless discussion here.
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The journey to wartime Buchenwald has been described as an interminable winter train trip, prisoners shoved so tightly into a wooden cattle car that their skin froze to the person next to them, turning the unfortunate passengers into one giant, barely squirming block of ice.
The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010
jwjarvis commented on the word interminable
Freud's followers, says Salter, waste their patients' time (and money) on an interminable dredging of the past.
December 15, 2010