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never-ending

adj

Etymology

From never + ending.

  1. derived from *andijōną✻ — “to end”
  2. inherited from *andijōndz✻
  3. inherited from endiende
  4. inherited from ending
  5. compounded as never-ending — “never + ending”

Definitions

  1. Having no end or being endless.

    • The story of upkeep has been never-ending. Between 1997-2000, a major programme of maintenance entailed replacing superstructure timbers - 50 main rail beams were replaced with greenheart, along with a similar number of edge beams.
    • But fans’ emotions are no longer filtered through ticket or album sales; they’re heard directly, constantly, at all hours, on all the platforms people visit to generate and extinguish bad feelings in a never-ending cycle.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for never-ending. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA