Unending Meaning
/əˈnɛndɪŋ/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjNot ending; having no end; eternal.
Sentence Examples
He cried thinking about his ordeal and its unending aftermath.
I'm up to here with your unending, insufferable nagging!
CEFR Practice Quiz
The vast desert stretched endlessly with ____ sand dunes as far as the eye could see.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ task of cleaning the old house seemed to take much longer than we had originally expected today.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English ending English unending From un- + ending.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"At any rate I was very sure that I would not attempt to attain unending life."
— 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
"As he looked back and thought of the recurrent seasons falling upon the world it seemed to him that they had come to the count, over and over, of Hard Times, Hard Times, Hard Times, more monotonous, more unending, than the count of the soldiers, muttering as they marched, years before, in the town which had before been called only the crossroads."
— 1930, John Donald Wade, The Life and Death of Cousin Lucius; republished as Donald Davidson, editor, Selected Essays and Other Writings of John Donald Wade, 1966, page 26:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The vast desert stretched endlessly with ____ sand dunes as far as the eye could see.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ task of cleaning the old house seemed to take much longer than we had originally expected today.