interminable

Etymology

From Middle French interminable, from Late Latin interminabilis

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɜː(ɹ).mɪn.ə.bəl/

Adjective

interminable (comparative more interminable, superlative most interminable)

1. Existing or occurring without interruption or end; ceaseless, unending.
   • 1847 January – 1848 July​, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Crawley of Queen’s Crawley”, in Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero, London: Bradbury and Evans, 11, Bouverie Street, published 1848, OCLC 3174108, page 61:

     After supper Sir Pitt Crawley began to smoke his pipe; and when it became quite dark, he lighted the rushlight in the tin candlestick, and producing from an interminable pocket a huge mass of papers, began reading them, and putting them in order.

Noun

interminable (plural interminables)

1. (mathematics, dated) A repeating decimal.

Adjective

interminable (masculine and feminine plural interminables)

1. interminable, unending

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin interminābilis. Synchronically analysable as in- +‎ terminer +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.mi.nabl/

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Adjective

interminable (plural interminables)

1. unending, endless, ceaseless, neverending

Further reading

• “interminable” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Adjective

interminable (plural interminables)

1. unending, interminable