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Definition: Endlessly |
EndlesslyAdverb1. Continuing forever without end; "there are infinitely many possibilities". 2. With unflagging resolve; "dance inspires him ceaselessly to strive higher and higher toward the shining pinnacle of perfection that is the goal of every artiste". 3. (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; "the Nubian desert seemed to stretch out before them endlessly". 4. All the time; seemingly without stopping; "a theological student with whom I argued interminably"; "her nagging went on endlessly". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "endlessly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Synonyms: EndlesslySynonyms: ceaselessly (adv), continuously (adv), incessantly (adv), infinitely (adv), interminably (adv), unceasingly (adv), unendingly (adv), without end (adv). (additional references) |
| Antonym: finitely (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Endlessly |
| English words defined with "endlessly": cursedly ♦ damnably, damned ♦ Forever and ever. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Time is like a circle which is endlessly described (Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution; writing credit: Jean-Luc Godard; Paul Éluard) Nothing! I just find it endlessly fascinating how your instincts are so highly attuned when it comes to boring old evil, but you have yet to make any mention of these new shoes (Angel; writing credit: Letícia Dornelles) | |
Lyrics | When you're touching me, kisses endlessly (Because Of You; performing artist: 98 Degrees; writing credit: Anders Bagge, Arntor Birgisson, Christian Karlsson, and Patrick Tucker) And turn into a beacon burning endlessly bright (Making Love Out Of Nothing At All; performing artist: Air Supply) At times I'd like to break through and hold you endlessly (Sometimes When We Touch; performing artist: Dan Hill) I will love you endlessly (Anytime You Need a Friend; performing artist: Mariah Carey) I loved you endlessly, (Bye Bye Bye; performing artist: N Sync) | |
Clever | If you depend on others to make you happy, you will be endlessly disappointed. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Endlessly (1993) | |
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| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Douglas Adams | Notorious, certainly; sought after, endlessly speculated about, those too were true |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | These men work carefully and endlessly to perfect the seed, the roots |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | In our economy, it is a myth that we must choose endlessly between inflation and recession. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Good faith can be a spiral that endlessly moves on. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Powerful people maneuver for position and worry endlessly about who is in and who is out, who is up and who is down, forgetting those whose toil and sweat sends us here and pays our way. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Endlessly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 99.49% of the time. "Endlessly" is used about 389 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 99.49% | 387 | 14,277 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.51% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 389 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "endlessly": talk endlessly. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "endlessly": endlessly-discussed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "endlessly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 不休 (ceaselessly), 不已 (incessantly), 不尽地. (various references) | |
Dutch | tot in het oneindige (ad infinitum). (various references) | |
Esperanto | senfine. (various references) | |
Finnish | loppumattomiin (indefinitely). (various references) | |
French | infiniment. (various references) | |
German | endlos (ceaseless, endless, everlasting, indefinitely, infinitely, interminable, interminably, never ending, perpetual, unending, unendingly, unfailing), endlose. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 留処無く (ceaselessly), 止め処無く (ceaselessly), 止め処無く (ceaselessly), 止めどなく (ceaselessly), まし取る (I guess, indicate reason, infers some protest, loose, pouring liquid, prevaricating, seems, slovenly, sluggishly, to be lazy, to be slack, to be unsuccessful, to fail, to feel dull, to feel languid, to feel listless, to take something away by deception). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | とめどなく (ceaselessly), ら ら (pouring liquid, prevaricating, sluggishly). (various references) | |
Korean | 끝없 (interminably). (various references) | |
Papiamen | infinitamente (ad infinitum). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | endlesslyay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | infinita. (various references) | |
Thai | อย่างไม่สิ้นสุ". (various references) | |
Turkish | çenesi düşmek (open up, talk endlessly, yak). (various references) | |
Turkmen | hдli-юindi. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | нескінченно, безконечно. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "endlessly" (pronounced e"ndluslē) |
| 7 | -n d l u s l ē | mindlessly. |
| 6 | -d l u s l ē | needlessly. |
| 5 | -l u s l ē | aimlessly, breathlessly, callously, carelessly, ceaselessly, jealously, effortlessly, fabulously, flawlessly, frivolously, fruitlessly, harmlessly, helplessly, hopelessly, listlessly, marvelously, mercilessly, meticulously, miraculously, painlessly, perilously, recklessly, relentlessly, restlessly, ridiculously, ruthlessly, scrupulously, seamlessly, shamelessly, tirelessly, tremulously, zealously. |
| 4 | -u s l ē | ambitiously, anonymously, anxiously, assiduously, autonomously, capriciously, cautiously, conscientiously, consciously, conspicuously, contemporaneously, contemptuously, continuously, courageously, curiously, dangerously, deliciously, disastrously, judiciously, laboriously, egregiously, enormously, enviously, erroneously, expeditiously, facetiously, fallaciously, famously, ferociously, furiously, generously, gloriously, graciously, gratuitously, grievously, harmoniously, hellaciously, hideously, hilariously, horrendously, humorously, incongruously, indigenously, ingeniously, instantaneously, intravenously, ludicrously, maliciously, mysteriously, nervously, notoriously, obviously, ominously, ostentatiously, outrageously, piously, posthumously, precariously, precipitously, previously, prodigiously, purposely, religiously, righteously, rigorously, seriously, simultaneously, spontaneously, strenuously, studiously, subconsciously, surreptitiously, suspiciously, synonymously, tediously, tenaciously, tremendously, unambiguously, unanimously, unceremoniously, unconsciously, variously, vicariously, viciously, vigorously, vociferously. |
| 3 | -s l ē | adversely, closely, concisely, conversely, densely, expressly, falsely, fiercely, grossly, immensely, intensely, inversely, loosely, nicely, parsley, perversely, precisely, princely, profusely, scarcely, sparsely, tensely, tersely, thusly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-l-l-n-s-s-y" | |
-2 letters: densely, endless, snelled. | |
-3 letters: dynels, lensed, lenses, lessen, selles, selsyn, sensed, snells, yelled, yessed. | |
-4 letters: deles, dells, delly, denes, dense, dynel, dynes, lends, lenes, lense, lysed, lyses, needs, needy, nelly, seeds, seedy, seels, seely, selle, sells, sends, sense, sleds, sneds, snell, snyes, yells, yeses. | |
-5 letters: dees, dele, dell, dels, dene, dens, deny, deys, dyes. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-l-l-n-s-s-y" | |
+1 letter: needlessly. | |
+4 letters: defenselessly. | |
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