fəˈnaɪ adverb
to infinity; endlessly; without limit.
Origin:
< Latin
< Latin
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| —adv | |
| ad inf without end; endlessly; to infinity | |
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Ad infinitum
is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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ad infinitum
1670s, from L., from ad "to" + infinitum "infinity," neut. of adj. infinitus "endless" (see infinite).
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