infinite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnfᵻnɪt/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɪnˈfaɪnaɪʈ/
Forms: form: more infinite
form: most infinite
Etymology: From Middle English infinite, from Old French infinit and its etymon Latin īnfīnītus, from in- (“not”) + fīnis (“end”) + the perfect passive participle ending -ītus. By surface analysis, in- + finite. Doublet of infinito. Displaced native Old English unġeendodlīċ.
Senses: examples: text: The number is so infinite, that verily it would be an easier matter for me to reckon up those that have feared the same.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 40, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: Whatever is finite, as finite, will admit of no comparative relation with infinity; for whatever is less than infinite is still infinitely distant from infinity; and lower than infinite distance the lowest or least cannot sink.
ref: 1735, Henry Brooke, Universal Beauty:
text: infinite riches in a little room
ref: c. 1589–1590 (date written), Christopher Marlo[we], edited by Tho[mas] Heywood, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Iew of Malta. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Nicholas Vavasour, […], published 1633, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
text: which infinite calamity shall cause to human life
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
synonyms: immeasurable
inestimable
vast
glosses: Indefinably large, countlessly great; immense.
examples: text: Great is our Lord, and of great power; his understanding is infinite.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 147:5:
synonyms: word: amaranthine
word: boundless
word: endless
word: interminable
word: limitless
word: unbounded
word: unending
word: unlimited
word: ageful
word: agelong
word: amaranthine
word: endless
word: enduring
word: eternal
word: eterne
word: everduring
word: evergreen
word: everlasting
word: eviternal
word: forever
word: imperishable
word: indesinent
word: lasting
word: neverending
word: perennial
word: permanent
word: perpetual
word: perpetuate
word: persistent
word: sempiternal
word: timeless
word: unending
word: undeadly
word: undying
glosses: Boundless, endless, without end or limits; innumerable.
examples: text: Huxley's theory says that if you provide infinite monkeys with infinite typewriters, some monkey somewhere will eventually create a masterpiece – a play by Shakespeare, a Platonic dialogue, or an economic treatise by Adam Smith.
ref: 2012, Helen Donelan, Karen Kear, Magnus Ramage, Online Communication and Collaboration: A Reader:
synonyms: word: countless
word: countless
word: innumerable
word: numberless
word: uncountable
word: uncounted
word: unnumberable
word: unnumbered
word: untold
glosses: Infinitely many.
raw_tags: with plural noun
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Greater than any positive quantity or magnitude; limitless.
examples: text: For any infinite set, there is a 1-1 correspondence between it and at least one of its proper subsets. For example, there is a 1-1 correspondence between the set of natural numbers and the set of squares of natural numbers, which is a proper subset of the set of natural numbers.
ref: 2009, Brandon C. Look, “Symbolic Logic II, Lecture 2: Set Theory”, in www.uky.edu/~look, archived from the original on 19 Jun 2018:
topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: Having infinitely many elements.
raw_tags: of a set
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Not limited by person or number.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Capable of endless repetition; said of certain forms of the canon, also called perpetual fugues, constructed so that their ends lead to their beginnings.
Synonyms: word: bottomless
word: boundless
word: endless
word: infinite
word: limitless
word: unbottomed
word: unbounded
word: unlimited
word: universal
Hyponyms: topics: set-theory
mathematics
sciences
word: countably infinite
topics: set-theory
mathematics
sciences
word: uncountable
word: beginningless
word: innumerable
Derived terms: biinfinite
bi-infinite
doubly infinite
infinifat
infinigon
infinitate
infinite canon
infinite continued fraction
infinite descent
infinite-dimensional
infinite hotel paradox
infinite loop
infinitely
infinite monkey theorem
infiniteness
infinite recursion
infinite regress
infinite runner
infinite scroll
infinite series
infinitesimal
infinite suicide
infinitillion
infinitism
infinitist
infinitize
infinitude
infinity
infiniverse
in one's infinite wisdom
noninfinite
pseudoinfinite
semi-infinite
superinfinite
Related terms: word: infinitive
word: immense
word: vast
word: continuous
word: deep
word: eternal