infinite
Part of speech: adj
num
noun
Morphological type: derivation
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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.
Inflected forms:
form: more infinite
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most infinite
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: infinites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Indefinably large, countlessly great; immense.
pos: adj
examples: The number is so infinite, that verily it would be an easier matter for me to reckon up those that have feared the same.
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.
infinite riches in a little room
which infinite calamity shall cause to human life
gloss: Boundless, endless, without end or limits; innumerable.
pos: adj
examples: Great is our Lord, and of great power; his understanding is infinite.
gloss: Infinitely many.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: Greater than any positive quantity or magnitude; limitless.
pos: adj
gloss: Having infinitely many elements.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: Not limited by person or number.
pos: adj
gloss: Capable of endless repetition; said of certain forms of the canon, also called perpetual fugues, constructed so that their ends lead to their beginnings.
pos: adj
gloss: Infinitely many.
pos: num
gloss: Something that is infinite in nature.
pos: noun
examples: Sooner Earth / Might go round Heaven, and the strait girth of Time / Inswathe the fulness of Eternity, / Than language grasp the infinite of Love.
Cautiously, Hobbes avoided asserting the equality of these infinites, and explicitly characterized the relation between them as non-inequality.
gloss: A combo that can be used repeatedly without interruption.
pos: noun
examples: […] prevents overpowered combos and infinites […]
Synonyms: bottomless
boundless
endless
infinite
limitless
unbottomed
unbounded
unlimited
universal
Antonyms: finite
infinitesimal
limited
noninfinite
uninfinite
Related words: infinitive
immense
vast
continuous
deep
eternal
Derived words: biinfinite
bi-infinite
doubly infinite
infinifat
infinigon
infinitate
infinite canon
infinite continued fraction
infinite descent
infinite-dimensional
infinite hotel paradox
infinite loop
infinitely
infinite money glitch
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
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