never-ending

Related to never-ending: methodically, in favor of, ameliorating, withering, two-fold, came across

nev·er-end·ing

(nĕv′ər-ĕn′dĭng)

adj.

Having no foreseeable end: the never-ending search for happiness.

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never-ending

adj

having or seeming to have no end; interminable

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Adj.

never-ending - uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing; "the ceaseless thunder of surf"; "in constant pain"; "night and day we live with the incessant noise of the city"; "the never-ending search for happiness"; "the perpetual struggle to maintain standards in a democracy"; "man's unceasing warfare with drought and isolation"; "unremitting demands of hunger"

ceaseless, incessant, unremitting, perpetual, unceasing, constant

continuous, uninterrupted - continuing in time or space without interruption; "a continuous rearrangement of electrons in the solar atoms results in the emission of light"- James Jeans; "a continuous bout of illness lasting six months"; "lived in continuous fear"; "a continuous row of warehouses"; "a continuous line has no gaps or breaks in it"; "moving midweek holidays to the nearest Monday or Friday allows uninterrupted work weeks"

never-ending

adjective endless, constant, continuous, persistent, eternal, relentless, perpetual, continual, unbroken, uninterrupted, interminable, incessant, everlasting, unchanging, ceaseless, unremitting, nonstop, unceasing a never-ending round of bombings, shootings and sectarian murder

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never-ending

adjective

Enduring for all time:

amaranthine, ceaseless, endless, eternal, everlasting, immortal, perpetual, unending, world without end.

Archaic: eterne.

Translations

never-ending

[ˈnevərˈendɪŋ] ADJ [search, struggle, procession] → interminable, inacabable

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never-ending

[ˌnɛvərˈɛndɪŋ] adj → interminabile

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However, I suspect that some of the absentees are not genuinely sick - just sick of the never-ending slog!

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Paul Pfeiffer turns Hollywood horrific by transforming Tom Cruise's infamous Risky Business sofa dance into a perpetual seizurelike spasm, while Heike Baranowsky has us holding our breath while her Schwimmerin crawls ceaselessly across a never-ending pool.

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It's not a gig to be standing at either,the music is easier to enjoy if you sit back and witness the build-up - from simple drums, violins and guitars, to what seems like a never-ending barrage of noise.

All rise for the Black Emperor

Look for the internationalist elites to dangle the never-ending threat of terrorism over the heads of Americans; they intend to browbeat us into accepting bigger and more centralized government and to surrender our precious sovereignty to the United Nations and kindred international organizations.

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* "While no sensible person expects the state to vanish overnight, let us not, like Zeno, be caught up in a never-ending succession of half-way measures.

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Turns out Billy wants to know what the channel has lined up for him after his "triumph" in those never-ending Beech Is Back spin-offs.

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More importantly, it opens the door to new levels of performance, particularly in the never-ending race to improve networking gear to handle the growing needs of the Internet and e-business.

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Consumers in developed countries increasingly bypass products from companies that ignore workers' rights, damage the environment and, above all, use controversial ingredients--think gene-modified corn, steroids in beef and Britain's never-ending "mad cow" debacle.

Fishing Troubled Waters

PARENTS whose children seem to have a never-ending list of fancy dress parties ahead of them are being handed a lifeline.

Help for costume makers

It's a never-ending pursuit: trying to interpret the ever-changing tax code to make use of all of the deductions to which you are entitled.

All the deductions you deserve

Like contestants in a never-ending tennis match, teams of cosmologists continue to argue back and forth about the numerical value of the Hubble constant.

Hubble constant: controversy continues

In the never-ending quest to build valued business relationships, it's a given that a certain protocol should be followed.