termlessとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɝmlɪs/

形容詞

termless (comparative more termless, superlative most termless)

1. Not terminating; having no end, limit, or boundary
   • 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):

     termless joys

   • 1900, Mark Twain, The man that corrupted Hadleyburg, and other essays and stories, page 187:

     In a few hours I shall be one of a nameless horde plodding the snowy solitudes of Russia, under the lash, and bound for that land of mystery and misery and termless oblivion, Siberia!

2. inexpressible; indescribable
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “A Louers Complaint”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

     termless skin

同意語

• (not terminating): unending; see also Thesaurus:endless or Thesaurus:continuous
• (inexpressible): indicible, ineffable; see also Thesaurus:indescribable

アナグラム

• resmelts, smelters