英语词汇“interminable”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

adj

Use interminable to describe something that has or seems to have no end. Your math class. Your sister's violin recital. A babysitting job where five kids are going through your purse and the parents didn't leave a number.

Something that is interminable is often boring, annoying, or hard to bear, such as an interminable noise. A near synonym is incessant, which also refers to something unpleasant that continues without stopping. It descends from the Latin prefix in- "not," terminare "to end," and the suffix -abilis "able to." Latin terminare is also the source of the English verb terminate "to end" and the corresponding noun termination "an act of ending something."

WORD FAMILY

interminable: interminably+/terminable: interminable/terminal: subterminal, terminally, terminals/terminate: terminable, terminated, terminates, terminating, termination, terminative/termination: terminations/terminative: terminatively/terminus: terminal, terminate, termini, terminuses

USAGE EXAMPLES

I used to think that an abyss is a moment of despair becoming interminable; but any moment, even the direst, is bound to end.

The New Yorker(Dec 25, 2016)

Even before November, the year felt, to me, like a single sleepless night spent absorbing an interminable series of nightmares through my phone.

The New Yorker(Dec 14, 2016)

After practice: Team lunch, followed by one more film session, team dinner and then the long, interminable wait before Saturday’s 5 p.m.

Seattle Times(Dec 10, 2016)

adj tiresomely long; seemingly without end

an interminable sermon

Syn

endless, eternal
long

primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified

单词	interminable
释义	interminable (once / 1282 pages) adj Use interminable to describe something that has or seems to have no end. Your math class. Your sister's violin recital. A babysitting job where five kids are going through your purse and the parents didn't leave a number. Something that is interminable is often boring, annoying, or hard to bear, such as an interminable noise. A near synonym is incessant, which also refers to something unpleasant that continues without stopping. It descends from the Latin prefix in- "not," terminare "to end," and the suffix -abilis "able to." Latin terminare is also the source of the English verb terminate "to end" and the corresponding noun termination "an act of ending something." WORD FAMILY interminable: interminably+/terminable: interminable/terminal: subterminal, terminally, terminals/terminate: terminable, terminated, terminates, terminating, termination, terminative/termination: terminations/terminative: terminatively/terminus: terminal, terminate, termini, terminuses USAGE EXAMPLES I used to think that an abyss is a moment of despair becoming interminable; but any moment, even the direst, is bound to end. The New Yorker(Dec 25, 2016) Even before November, the year felt, to me, like a single sleepless night spent absorbing an interminable series of nightmares through my phone. The New Yorker(Dec 14, 2016) After practice: Team lunch, followed by one more film session, team dinner and then the long, interminable wait before Saturday’s 5 p.m. Seattle Times(Dec 10, 2016) adj tiresomely long; seemingly without end an interminable sermon Syn endless, eternal long primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
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