unending

English

Etymology

un- +‎ ending

Adjective

unending (not comparable)

Not ending; having no end; eternal.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
  At any rate I was very sure that I would not attempt to attain unending life.

Synonyms

(having no end): termless; see also Thesaurus:endless

Related terms

Translations

never reaching an end

Chinese:
Cantonese: 絡繹／络绎 (lok³ jik⁶) (literary)

Mandarin: 絡繹／络绎 (zh) (luòyì) ((literary))
Finnish: loputon (fi)
French: éternel (fr), sans fin, infini (fr)
German: endlos (de), nicht enden wollend, ewig (de)
Greek: ατελείωτος (el) (ateleíotos), ατέλειωτος (el) (atéleiotos)
Occitan: infinit (oc), interminable, sensa fin, etèrn (oc), eternal (oc)
Spanish: interminable
Turkish: sonsuz (tr)

References

“unending”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

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