Infinite means without any end or limit. Infinite patience, an infinite number, infinite space.
In mathematics it is precise and has different sizes — there are more real numbers than whole numbers, though both sets are infinite, which is one of the more startling results in the subject. In ordinary speech it is exaggeration: infinite patience, infinite variety. Note infinity, the noun; infinitesimal, meaning vanishingly small; and that infinite and indefinite are different — indefinite means having no stated limit rather than no limit.
1adjectiveinfiniteWithout any end or limit.
“There is an infinite number of primes, which Euclid proved.”
synonyms: endless, limitless
infinite is a quality of being unlimited.
Also accepted in games: endless, limitless
Latin infinitus is in-, not, plus finis, an end — the same finis as in finish, final and define. Something infinite is literally unended, and defining something is putting a boundary round it.
Latin
īnfīnītus
Old French
infinit
Middle English
infinite
English, today
infinite
Built from
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. a doublet of infinito. Displaced native unġeendodlīċ.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA