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never-ending

adjectiveB1leans spoken

Never-ending means going on and on with no sign of stopping. A never-ending queue.

It is almost always a complaint, and almost always an exaggeration. A never-ending task is usually one that renews itself, like washing up or weeding.

Definitions of never-ending

  1. 1adjectivenever-endingGoing on and on with no sign of stopping.B1

    “The never-ending roadworks outlasted two governments.”

never-ending is a quality.

Also accepted in games: endless

Where it comes from

Never plus ending; the compound is recorded from the sixteenth century.

From never + ending.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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