ENDLESSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does endlessly mean? 

• ENDLESSLY (adverb)
  The adverb ENDLESSLY has 4 senses:

1. continuing forever without end

2. with unflagging resolve

3. (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds

4. all the time; seemingly without stopping

  Familiarity information: ENDLESSLY used as an adverb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENDLESSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Continuing forever without end

Synonyms:

endlessly; infinitely

Context example:

there are infinitely many possibilities

Pertainym:

endless (having no known beginning and presumably no end)

Sense 2

Meaning:

With unflagging resolve

Synonyms:

ceaselessly; continuously; endlessly; incessantly; unceasingly; unendingly

Context example:

dance inspires him ceaselessly to strive higher and higher toward the shining pinnacle of perfection that is the goal of every artiste

Pertainym:

endless (having no known beginning and presumably no end)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds

Context example:

the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly

Sense 4

Meaning:

All the time; seemingly without stopping

Synonyms:

endlessly; interminably

Context example:

her nagging went on endlessly

Pertainym:

endless (tiresomely long; seemingly without end)

 Context examples 

I think I must have fallen asleep and kept dreaming of the incident, for it seemed to be repeated endlessly, and now looking back, it is like a sort of awful nightmare.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

There was something indescribably nerve-shaking and menacing in that constant mutter, which seemed to shape itself into the very syllables of the half-breed, endlessly repeated, We will kill you if we can. We will kill you if we can.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Thus, the pair of lovers could be jarred apart by misunderstood motives, by accident of fate, by jealous rivals, by irate parents, by crafty guardians, by scheming relatives, and so forth and so forth; they could be reunited by a brave deed of the man lover, by a similar deed of the woman lover, by change of heart in one lover or the other, by forced confession of crafty guardian, scheming relative, or jealous rival, by voluntary confession of same, by discovery of some unguessed secret, by lover storming girl's heart, by lover making long and noble self-sacrifice, and so on, endlessly.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But no one stopped it, and he was glad, punching on wearily and endlessly with his one arm, battering away at a bloody something before him that was not a face but a horror, an oscillating, hideous, gibbering, nameless thing that persisted before his wavering vision and would not go away.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But above the grey land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it, you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)