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end·less

 (ĕnd′lĭs)
adj.
1. Being or seeming to be without an end or limit; boundless: an endless universe; an endless conversation.
2. Formed with the ends joined; continuous: an endless chain.

end′less·ly adv.
end′less·ness n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adv.1.endlessly - continuing forever without end; "there are infinitely many possibilities"
2.endlessly - with unflagging resolveendlessly - with unflagging resolve; "dance inspires him ceaselessly to strive higher and higher toward the shining pinnacle of perfection that is the goal of every artiste"
3.endlessly - (spatial sense) without bounds; "the Nubian desert seemed to stretch out before them endlessly"
4.endlessly - all the time; seemingly without stopping; "a theological student with whom I argued interminably"; "her nagging went on endlessly"
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Translations
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endlessly

[ˈendlɪslɪ] ADV [repeat] → una y otra vez, hasta la saciedad; [discuss] → hasta la saciedad; [argue] → continuamente; [talk] → sin parar; [recycle] → una y otra vez
she talks endlessly about her jobno para de hablar de su trabajo
the desert stretched endlessly before herel desierto se extendía interminable ante ella
he could see his life stretching out endlessly before himveía su vida extendiéndose interminablemente ante sus ojos
she is endlessly patienttiene una paciencia infinita
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

endlessly

[ˈɛndləsli] adv
(= interminably, without stopping) [talk, repeat] → continuellement
(= infinitely) to be endlessly patient → être d'une patience infinie
to be endlessly inventive → être d'une inventivité sans bornes
It's endlessly fascinating
BUT Cela ne cesse pas de me fasciner.
(= to infinity) [stretch, extend] → à perte de vue
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

endlessly

adv
(= without stopping) talk, discuss, argueendlos; listen, play, sitewig
(= again and again) repeat, recycleendlos, immer wieder
(= without limit) stretchendlos; fascinating, curious, longunendlich
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

endlessly

[ˈɛndlɪslɪ] advsenza fine
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
References in classic literature ?
Bottomless vales and boundless floods, And chasms, and caves, and Titian woods, With forms that no man can discover For the dews that drip all over; Mountains toppling evermore Into seas without a shore; Seas that restlessly aspire, Surging, unto skies of fire; Lakes that endlessly outspread Their lone waters - lone and dead, - Their still waters - still and chilly With the snows of the lolling lily.
It is a sort of steady, persistent, overwhelming, endlessly driving downpour, which makes your heart sick, and opens it to dismal forebodings.
Powerful people maneuver for position and worry endlessly about who is IN and who is OUT, who is UP and who is DOWN, forgetting those people whose toil and sweat sends us here and paves our way.
For untold ages, oppressed by protean fear, I am aware of wandering, endlessly wandering, through a dank and soggy wilderness, where poisonous snakes struck at us, and animals roared around us, and the mud quaked under us and sucked at our heels.
Here, in this atmosphere of bohemianism, I could not but contrast the scene with my scene of the day before, sitting at my machine, in the stifling, shut-in air, repeating, endlessly repeating, at top speed, my series of mechanical motions.
He kissed her endlessly with his white lips, and held her hand, and said--
At these times his reason could offer him no help, he imagined the anguish of a physical torment which would last endlessly, he felt quite sick with fear and burst into a violent sweat.
Pausing, they looked down into the river which bore its dark tide of waters, endlessly moving, beneath them.
They drove again through the outskirts of the village and along the same road, past the yard where the frozen linen had hung (which, however, was no longer to be seen), past the same barn, which was now snowed up almost to the roof and from which the snow was still endlessly pouring past the same dismally moaning, whistling, and swaying willows, and again entered into the sea of blustering snow raging from above and below.
And in the meantime, running endlessly with Jerry over the ranch, he learned all the ways of it and all the life of it from the chickenyards and the duck-ponds to the highest pitch of Sonoma Mountain.
There he babbles endlessly, and no more has strength at all, such as once he had in his supple limbs.
Whether marching amid his aides and marshals in the van of countless cohorts that endlessly streamed it over the plains, like an Ohio; or whether with his circumambient subjects browsing all around at the horizon, the White Steed gallopingly reviewed them with warm nostrils reddening through his cool milkiness; in whatever aspect he presented himself, always to the bravest Indians he was the object of trembling reverence and awe.