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单词 interminable
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interminableadj.

/ɪnˈtəːmɪnəb(ə)l/
Etymology: < French interminable (14th cent., Oresme), or < late Latin interminābilis (Tertullian), < in- (in- prefix4) + termināre to terminate adj. and n.: see -able suffix.
a. That cannot be bounded or ended; boundless; endless. (In modern use frequently exaggerative, implying impatience or disgust at the length of something.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [adjective]
echec825
echelichc825
endlessc888
lastinga1225
everlastingc1225
perdurablec1275
perpetuala1325
unendeda1325
incorruptiblea1340
ay-lastingc1340
inlastingc1340
eternec1366
interminablec1374
unstanchablec1374
ever-duringa1382
eternalc1386
sempitern1390
never-failinga1400
sempiternal14..
ever-being?a1425
ever-durable?a1425
immarcescible?a1475
perennal?c1500
deathless1547
everlastable1548
incessant1557
unperishing1561
undeterminable1581
evera1586
unendlya1586
inexterminable1592
never-ending?1592
aeviternal1596
dateless1597
undecaying1599
entombless1601
perishless1605
ageless1609
continual1610
perpetuous1612
imperible1614
ne'er-endinga1616
out-date1623
undated1624
perennious1628
immortal1630
imperishable1648
birthless1651
fadeless1652
sempiternous1653
evergreen1655
intemporal1656
indefectible1659
inconclusible1660
unending1661
aeonian1664
unfading1665
sempervirent1668
amaranthal1674
ne'er-dying1693
perennial1717
timeless1742
indefeatablea1754
amaranthine1782
aeonial1800
unterminating1821
unevanescent1827
ay1845
forever1879
sempervirid1909
the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > infiniteness > [adjective] > that cannot be circumscribed
incomprehensiblea1340
interminablec1374
indeterminable1486
uncompassable?1536
incircumscriptible1550
unlimitable1576
uncircumscriptible1577
immensible1579
illimitable1596
uncircumscribable1608
abyssal1609
unboundable1622
undeterminable1633
indefinible1652
unterminablea1677
exterminable1813
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) v. pr. vi. 133 Eternite..is parfyt possession..of lyf Intermynable.
c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi iii. lxi. 143 I am þe wey undefoulid, þe trouþe infallible, þe lyf intermynable.
1520–30 J. Skelton Prayer to Father 1 O radiant Luminary of lyght interminable Celestial Father.
1681 J. Flavell Method of Grace viii. 175 Your fellowship with Christ is interminable, and abides for ever.
1744 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 83 Plains immense Lie stretch'd below, interminable Meads, And vast Savannahs.
1830 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I III. xi. 227 Two able men arguing by two opposite standards of judgment, may open an interminable controversy.
1860 J. L. Motley Hist. Netherlands (1868) I. i. 2 A writing~table covered with heaps of interminable despatches.
b. absol. the Interminable, the Infinite.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > [noun] > as everlasting
everlastinga1382
the Eternal1582
ever-living1601
the Eterne1613
the Interminable1671
ever-present1838
timeless1892
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 307 As if they would confine th' interminable, And tie him to his own prescript, Who made our Laws to bind us, not himself. View more context for this quotation
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