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Infinite   /ˈɪnfənət/   Listen
adjective
Infinite  adj.  
1.
Unlimited or boundless, in time or space; as, infinite duration or distance. "Whatever is finite, as finite, will admit of no comparative relation with infinity; for whatever is less than infinite is still infinitely distant from infinity; and lower than infinite distance the lowest or least can not sink."
2.
Without limit in power, capacity, knowledge, or excellence; boundless; immeasurably or inconceivably great; perfect; as, the infinite wisdom and goodness of God; opposed to finite. "Great is our Lord, and of great power; his understanding is infinite." "O God, how infinite thou art!"
3.
Indefinitely large or extensive; great; vast; immense; gigantic; prodigious. "Infinite riches in a little room." "Which infinite calamity shall cause To human life."
4.
(Math.) Greater than any assignable quantity of the same kind; said of certain quantities.
5.
(Mus.) Capable of endless repetition; said of certain forms of the canon, called also perpetual fugues, so constructed that their ends lead to their beginnings, and the performance may be incessantly repeated.
Synonyms: Boundless; immeasurable; illimitable; interminable; limitless; unlimited; endless; eternal.


noun
Infinite  n.  
1.
That which is infinite; boundless space or duration; infinity; boundlessness. "Not till the weight is heaved from off the air, and the thunders roll down the horizon, will the serene light of God flow upon us, and the blue infinite embrace us again."
2.
(Math.) An infinite quantity or magnitude.
3.
An infinity; an incalculable or very great number. "Glittering chains, embroidered richly o'er With infinite of pearls and finest gold."
4.
The Infinite Being; God; the Almighty.





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"Infinite" Quotes from Famous Books



... had gotten up between them; and which, though not the best fit in the world, was, in color, exceedingly becoming to the dark-eyed child, who, perched upon the music-stool, was imitating her own operatic songs to the infinite delight of the old man, nodding his approval ...
— Darkness and Daylight • Mary J. Holmes
... no doubt about what is not great, no race of men have such obvious littlenesses. They live in a narrow world so far as their human intercourse goes; their researches involve infinite attention and an almost monastic seclusion; and what is left over is not very much. To witness some queer, shy, misshapen, greyheaded, self-important, little discoverer of great discoveries, ridiculously adorned with ...
— The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth • H.G. Wells
... his turn with a word of counsel or direction or encouragement, as the case seemed to need. Sometimes the answer was in the words of the Bible; but always, whatever it were, it was given, Eleanor felt, with singular appositeness to the interests before him. With great skill too, and with infinite sympathy and tenderness if need called for it; with sympathy invariably. And Eleanor admired the apt readiness and kindness and wisdom with which the answers were framed; so as to suggest without fail the lesson desired to be given, yet so suggest it should ...
— The Old Helmet, Volume I • Susan Warner
... were impressed by the vast extent and infinite variety of the Empire domain we were also touched by the sentiment which held together its widely scattered parts. Without this sentiment, and without loyalty to the Crown and Mother Country, what, we ...
— Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland • Joseph Tatlow
... which denies it.... It is almost an impossibility for a man and a woman to have a close, sympathetic friendship without the tendrils of one soul becoming fastened around the other, with the result of infinite pain and anguish.... The great financial rings, Christian Union, Life of Christ and Plymouth church, the three in one, most powerful trinity, seem to have subsidized ...
— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper


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