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单词 interminable
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Definition of interminable in English:

interminable

adjective ɪnˈtəːmɪnəb(ə)lɪnˈtərmənəb(ə)l
  • Endless or apparently endless (often used hyperbolically)

    (常有夸张之意)无休止的,没完没了的,冗长不堪的

    we got bogged down in interminable discussions

    我们陷在没完没了的讨论中。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Having navigated those hurdles we then have the interminable drive South.
    • Most people are likely tired of the interminable debate over outsourcing.
    • He avoided answering every question and produced an interminable drone to kill time and frustrate the interviewer.
    • Most people are more afraid of being caught in interminable suffering during the dying process than they are of death itself.
    • I anticipated interminable delays in taking our orders but I was wrong.
    • After a while these interminable lists acquire a certain ghoulish fascination, prompting a host of other questions.
    • At times, the delays for relatives and victims have seemed interminable.
    • There was the usual interminable discussion about it at half time and afterwards.
    • Then we waited for the interminable paperwork that accompanies getting bumped.
    • This is an interminable argument that must be decided situationally.
    • It was the interminable non-story about some guy's grad night woes that finally blew my patience out the back door.
    • I get more intolerant and downright bored with this interminable, stomach-churning rubbish every year.
    • It bores me to write the words, but that's the nature of this interminable week.
    • The Josef Stalin Museum itself is enormous, winding through interminable corridors over two floors.
    • At least this would be less boring than those interminable slide shows he gave us in days gone by.
    • And so it continues with only the occasional hand clap to lessen the interminable uninspiring drone.
    • Traffic is horrendous, with streets congested during seemingly interminable rush hours.
    • The films are slow with no tension or real intrigue to bridge the interminable passages where nothing happens.
    • Just how many of them have read the addled, interminable book that first described his adventures, however, is debatable.
    • Later his name appears in the papers, he is forced to move house because of death threats and he can't find work due to an interminable police inquiry.
    Synonyms
    seemingly endless, endless, never-ending, unending, without end, non-stop, everlasting, ceaseless, unceasing, incessant, constant, continual, uninterrupted, unbroken, sustained
    monotonous, tedious, wearisome, boring, long-winded, long-drawn-out, overlong, rambling, meandering, laborious, ponderous
    countless, numerous, many, untold, manifold, multitudinous, multifarious, innumerable, numberless, unmeasured, unnumbered, incalculable, indeterminable
    literary myriad, legion
    rare innumerous, unnumberable

Derivatives

  • interminableness

  • nounɪnˈtəːmɪnəb(ə)lnəsɪnˈtərmənəb(ə)lnəs
    • I don't mean boring interminableness or even passive open-endedness, but a deep, intense wish not to come to an end, a wish so strong it transmits itself to us as a conviction.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • By this time, I was about to have flashbacks to the interminableness of the opening ceremonies, especially when I saw the next program item was greetings from about 10 politicians.
      • Funny that we liken that sort of interminableness to fair ground rides.
      • Even when others reassured me that the overcoming process takes time, the seemingly interminableness of it led me only to a sort of despair as the light at the end of the tunnel seemed impossibly distant.
      • Every winter for the past ten years, I have written a column complaining about February - its seeming interminableness, its soporific effects, its utter pointlessness - without making the connection between winter and mortality.
  • interminably

  • adverb ɪnˈtəːmɪnəbli
    • The long school holidays are about to start and the summer stretches out interminably in front of them.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • And as hospitals grow technologically, this problem repeats itself interminably.
      • And this silence stretches, and stretches interminably.
      • The movie plods on seemingly interminably, but always interestingly.
      • You can't continue this process interminably.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French, or from late Latin interminabilis, from in- 'not' + terminare (see terminate).

Definition of interminable in US English:

interminable

adjectiveɪnˈtərmənəb(ə)linˈtərmənəb(ə)l
  • Endless (often used hyperbolically)

    (常有夸张之意)无休止的,没完没了的,冗长不堪的

    we got bogged down in interminable discussions

    我们陷在没完没了的讨论中。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Then we waited for the interminable paperwork that accompanies getting bumped.
    • Most people are more afraid of being caught in interminable suffering during the dying process than they are of death itself.
    • It bores me to write the words, but that's the nature of this interminable week.
    • There was the usual interminable discussion about it at half time and afterwards.
    • It was the interminable non-story about some guy's grad night woes that finally blew my patience out the back door.
    • At times, the delays for relatives and victims have seemed interminable.
    • Most people are likely tired of the interminable debate over outsourcing.
    • He avoided answering every question and produced an interminable drone to kill time and frustrate the interviewer.
    • The Josef Stalin Museum itself is enormous, winding through interminable corridors over two floors.
    • Later his name appears in the papers, he is forced to move house because of death threats and he can't find work due to an interminable police inquiry.
    • This is an interminable argument that must be decided situationally.
    • After a while these interminable lists acquire a certain ghoulish fascination, prompting a host of other questions.
    • I anticipated interminable delays in taking our orders but I was wrong.
    • I get more intolerant and downright bored with this interminable, stomach-churning rubbish every year.
    • At least this would be less boring than those interminable slide shows he gave us in days gone by.
    • And so it continues with only the occasional hand clap to lessen the interminable uninspiring drone.
    • Traffic is horrendous, with streets congested during seemingly interminable rush hours.
    • Just how many of them have read the addled, interminable book that first described his adventures, however, is debatable.
    • Having navigated those hurdles we then have the interminable drive South.
    • The films are slow with no tension or real intrigue to bridge the interminable passages where nothing happens.
    Synonyms
    seemingly endless, endless, never-ending, unending, without end, non-stop, everlasting, ceaseless, unceasing, incessant, constant, continual, uninterrupted, unbroken, sustained
    countless, numerous, many, untold, manifold, multitudinous, multifarious, innumerable, numberless, unmeasured, unnumbered, incalculable, indeterminable

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French, or from late Latin interminabilis, from in- ‘not’ + terminare (see terminate).

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