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interminable

[ in-tur-muh-nuh-buhl ]

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adjective

incapable of being terminated; unending:
an interminable job.
monotonously or annoyingly protracted or continued; unceasing; incessant:
I can't stand that interminable clatter.
having no limits:
an interminable desert.

interminable

/ ɪnˈtɜːmɪnəbəl /

First recorded in 1325–75; Middle English word from Late Latin word interminābilis. See in- ³, terminable

They feed the mind, to be sure, but also help him get through the interminable hours he spends on planes.

Under Sepp Blatter, its interminable head, the body has been opaque and corrupt.

She wore her wounds with pride, addicted to looking as sick as she felt—a warrior in an interminable battle against herself.

Lines at markets are long and the waits seemingly interminable.

He began with a seemingly interminable preface about going fishing with his 10-year-old son, Harry, and spotting a bird in a tree.

She lost herself in the interminable corridors and finally ran into Elton Gwynne.

Finally, after what seemed an interminable period of waiting, Mac's patience frazzled out and he declared for action.

However, revolution followed revolution, and the war appeared to me to be interminable.

Such a course would tend only to bloody and interminable anarchy.

The gently rolling prairie stretched to a creek on one side, and to interminable distance on the other.

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