endlessとは意味・読み方・使い方

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From 中期英語 endeles, from 古期英語 endelēas (“endless”), from Proto-Germanic *andijalausaz (“endless”), equivalent to end +‎ -less.

endless (not comparable)

Having no end.

endless time; endless praise
- 1942 May-June, “Cable Operation at Liverpool and London”, in Railway Magazine, page 174:
  
  Trains from Lime Street to Edge Hill were hauled by an endless hempen rope worked by a stationary engine on the platform at the latter station.
Extending indefinitely.

an endless line
Too much or many to be exhausted; an extremely high number or amount of; immeasurable, innumerable.
- 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 64:
  
  In 1903, [Albert Shhoenhut] announced his Humpty Dumpty circus, with over 20 figures and animals, each with six joints enabling them to be put into endless positions.
(obsolete) Without profitable end; fruitless; unsatisfying.
- c. 1615–1616, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “Loves Pilgramage, a Comedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act II, scene iii:
  
  All loves are endless.

印欧語根
ant-	前・正面、額・前額などを表す印欧語根。接頭辞 anti-を持つ語（anticipateなど）の由来として、「…に向かって」の意。antique などの由来として、以前の。
leu-	解くこと・弛めること、分割すること・切り分けることを表す印欧語根。接尾辞-lessの由来として、虚偽の・不足した。他の重要な派生語は、loose, resolve, solveなど。


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endlessとは 意味・読み方・使い方