"infinitely" meaning in English

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Adverb

IPA: /ˈɪnfɪnɪtli/ Audio: en-us-infinitely.ogg Forms: more infinitely [comparative], most infinitely [superlative]
Etymology: From infinite + -ly. Etymology templates: {{af|en|infinite|-ly|id2=adverbial}} infinite + -ly Head templates: {{en-adv}} infinitely (comparative more infinitely, superlative most infinitely)
  1. In an infinite manner; as of anything growing without bounds; endlessly. Synonyms (infinite manner): ceaselessly Translations (endlessly): μῠρίος (muríos) (Ancient Greek), äärettömästi (Finnish), à l’infini (French), infiniment (French), infinitamente (Galician), უსასრულოდ (usasrulod) (Georgian), infinitamente (Italian), interminatamente (Italian), അനന്തമായി (anantamāyi) (Malayalam), înfinniement (Norman), uendelig (Norwegian Bokmål), nieskończenie (Polish), infinitamente (Portuguese), бесконе́чно (beskonéčno) (Russian), бе̏сконачно [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), бе̏згранично [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), bȅskonačno [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), bȅzgranično [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), infinitamente (Spanish)
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  2. To a surpassingly large extent. Synonyms (surpassingly large extent): extremely
    Sense id: en-infinitely-en-adv-vKfA7eUh Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ly (adverbial), Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Ancient Greek translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with Georgian translations, Terms with Norman translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 51 49 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ly (adverbial): 55 45 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 53 47 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 52 48 Disambiguation of Terms with Ancient Greek translations: 50 50 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 55 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 55 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Georgian translations: 55 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Norman translations: 55 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 55 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 55 45 Disambiguation of 'surpassingly large extent': 8 92
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: incessantly, nonstop, continuously, utterly, completely Derived forms: infinitely many

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.