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# endless

«endless» in Mova's school dictionary: **without an end, going on for ever** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (endless)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Endless means without an end, going on for ever. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/endless/#m1)

2) In everyday talk endless means seeming to go on for a very long time, or very many. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/endless/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories it paints big spaces and long waits: endless desert, endless sea, an endless day. In maths the number line and counting are truly endless. Phrases: «endless questions», «the list is endless», «endless fun», «an endless supply».

### examples

- The car journey felt endless. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/endless/#x1)
- The desert stretched out, endless and hot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/endless/#x2)
- My little brother asks endless questions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/endless/#x3)
- Counting numbers is endless; there is always one more. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/endless/#x4)
- We had endless fun at the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/endless/#x5)
- The sky looked endless from the top of the hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/endless/#x6)
- There seemed to be an endless line of people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/endless/#x7)
- The endless halls shine in marble and many colors. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/endless/#x8)

### note

Endless + adverb «endlessly». Usually it is exaggeration: an «endless» lesson did end. In maths, «infinite» is the exact word for truly endless; a circle has no end but is not infinitely long.

### In the corpora

- [Replaying a failure can help you learn at first, but endless replays at night just keep the hurt fresh.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/24-i-failed-the-missed-penalty-the-lost-race-the-bad-mark/10/)
- [Apps use autoplay and endless feeds to keep you scrolling, so timers and app limits help.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «endless» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/endless/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.