infinite
See also: infinité
infinite - English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA: /ˈɪnfɪnɪt/
- (US) IPA: /ˈɪnfɪnɪt/, /ˈɪnfənɪt/
- Hyphenation: in‧fi‧nite
Adjective
infinite (comparative more infinite, superlative most infinite)
- Indefinably large, countlessly great; immense.
- Synonyms: immeasurable, inestimable, vast
- Boundless, endless, without end or limits; innumerable.
- Synonyms: amaranthine, boundless, endless, interminable, limitless, unbounded, unending, unlimited; see also infinite, eternal
- (with plural noun) Infinitely many.
- Synonyms: countless; see also innumerable
- (mathematics) Greater than any positive quantity or magnitude; limitless.
- (set theory, of a set) Having infinitely many elements.
- (grammar) Not limited by person or number.
- (music) Capable of endless repetition; said of certain forms of the canon, also called perpetual fugues, constructed so that their ends lead to their beginnings.
Usage notes
Although the term is incomparable in the precise sense, it can be comparable both in mathematics and set theory to compare different degrees of infinity, and informally to denote yet a larger thing.
Poets (and particularly hymn-writers before the 20th century) would commonly rhyme the word as though pronounced [-ɑɪnɑɪt] and church congregations still on occasion adopt that pronunciation.
Antonyms
Hyponyms
- (set theory): countably infinite
- (set theory): uncountable
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Numeral
infinite
- Infinitely many.
Noun
infinite (plural infinites)
- Something that is infinite in nature.
- (video games) A combo that can be used repeatedly without interruption.
infinite - Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA: /in.fiˈni.te/
- Hyphenation: in‧fi‧nì‧te
Adjective
infinite
- feminine plural of infinito
infinite - Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA: /in.fiːˈniː.te/, [ĩːfiːˈniːt̪ɛ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA: /in.fiˈni.te/, [iɱfiˈniːt̪e]
Adjective
īnfīnīte
- vocative masculine singular of īnfīnītus