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Infinite   /ˈɪnfənət/   Listen
Infinite

adjective
1.
Having no limits or boundaries in time or space or extent or magnitude.  "Infinite wealth"  Antonym: finite.
2.
Of verbs; having neither person nor number nor mood (as a participle or gerund or infinitive).  Synonym: non-finite.  Antonym: finite.
3.
Too numerous to be counted.  Synonyms: countless, innumerable, innumerous, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable.  "Countless hours" , "An infinite number of reasons" , "Innumerable difficulties" , "The multitudinous seas" , "Myriad stars" , "Untold thousands"
4.
Total and all-embracing.
noun
1.
The unlimited expanse in which everything is located.  Synonym: space.  "The boundless regions of the infinite"



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"Infinite" Quotes from Famous Books



... from my newly purchased farm in Connecticut, however, I had not been working for money or popular approval, but for my own pleasure. There was a Work upon which I spent only special hours of delicious leisure and infinite labor. It held all that was forbidden to popular compositions; depth and sorrow and dissonances dearer than harmony. I called it a Symphony Polynesian, and I had spent years in study of barbaric music, instruments and kindred ...
— The Thing from the Lake • Eleanor M. Ingram
... this shelly and sandy islet the sea stretched blue and infinite without a speck of land or sail; the same as Turnbull had first seen it, except that the tide being out it showed a few yards more of slanting sand under the roots of the rocks. But on the fourth side the island exhibited a more extraordinary ...
— The Ball and The Cross • G.K. Chesterton
... said—"that infinite void under which an ocean wallows. It is like hell, I think. Do you understand how I ...
— The Reckoning • Robert W. Chambers
... big pipe and wearing baggy breeches and wooden shoes came up and surveyed us with kindly amusement, as Simmons scraped at me with infinite gusto. He was a Hollander; not a "Dutchman." We soon learned that the latter was a term of contempt applied by the former ...
— The Escape of a Princess Pat • George Pearson
... is attended with infinite difficulty and perplexity to the Resident and Government; and is at the same time exceedingly odious to the people and Government of Oude. Officers commanding regiments and companies have much trouble with such petitions. Able to hear only one side of any question, they think that the ...
— A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II • William Sleeman


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