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/ɪntˈɜːmɪnəbəl/
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[ US /ˌɪnˈtɝmənəbəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈtɝmənəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
tiresomely long; seemingly without end
an endless conversation
endless debates
an interminable sermon
eternal quarreling
the wait seemed eternal
How To Use interminable In A Sentence
- During that interminable slo-mo edit of England's World Cup qualification the river of molten sentimentality was so ickily glutinous you'd have thought we'd already won the bloody thing. Frederick william jackson
- He must have been very drunk, for at last the heavy sleep gripped him with the suddenness of a magic spell, and the last word lengthened itself into an interminable, noisy, in-drawn snore. Youth And Two Other Stories
- Puerisque ',' Marcus Aurelius ',' The Unveiling of Lhassa '-- but the list is rather interminable. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
- It was in the public forums, the interminable meetings that became routine, when attention wavered and respect dimmed. Times, Sunday Times
- There was the usual interminable discussion about it at half time and afterwards.
- But there has, in the past, been some niggles, such as the often interminable hassle of getting money for goods and services out of some Arab nations.
- The fact of the matter was that her brain was reeling about, punch-drunk after the twelve-round contest of this interminable day. LAST SHOT
- However, being multi-vocular is not the same as being an archipelago of hermetically sealed cries; history provides the difference between Babel (the interminable inability to communicate one's suffering and one's love, faith, and hopes) and a possible common future. Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
- an interminable sermon
- I would class this a speculative fiction anyway, but there we start in interminable process of labelling, and lets not have that pointless discussion here. Perdido Street Station by China Mieville « I Can’t Stop Reading!