infinitely

English

Etymology

From infinite +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪnfɪnɪtli/
• Hyphenation: in‧fi‧nite‧ly

• Audio (US):

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Adverb

infinitely (comparative more infinitely, superlative most infinitely)

1. In an infinite manner; as of anything growing without bounds; endlessly.
2. To a surpassingly large extent.

   He is infinitely more capable than John.

   • 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide‎, page 4:

     Today, computer databases and corpora infinitely increase the ease of this type of research, but the collecting process remains essentially the same.

Synonyms

• (infinite manner): ceaselessly, incessantly, nonstop; see also Thesaurus:continuously
• (surpassingly large extent): extremely, utterly; see also Thesaurus:completely

Derived terms

• infinitely many

Translations

endlessly

Esperanto: senfine (eo) Finnish: äärettömästi (fi) French: à l'infini (fr), infiniment (fr) Galician: infinitamente Georgian: უსასრულოდ (usasrulod) Greek: Ancient: μῠρίος (mŭríos) Italian: infinitamente (it), interminatamente (it) Malayalam: അനന്തമായി (anantamāyi) Norman: înfinniement Norwegian: Bokmål: uendelig (no) Polish: nieskończenie (pl) Portuguese: infinitamente (pt) Russian: бесконе́чно (ru) (beskonéčno) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: бе̏сконачно, бе̏згранично Roman: bȅskonačno (sh), bȅzgranično (sh) Spanish: infinitamente