Antonyms of adj endless

4 senses of endless

Sense 1
endless, eternal, interminable -- (tiresomely long; seemingly without end; "endless debates"; "an endless conversation"; "the wait seemed eternal"; "eternal quarreling"; "an interminable sermon")

INDIRECT (VIA long) -> short -- (primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration; "a short life"; "a short flight"; "a short holiday"; "a short story"; "only a few short months")

Sense 2
endless -- (infinitely great in number; "endless waves")

INDIRECT (VIA infinite) -> finite -- (bounded or limited in magnitude or spatial or temporal extent)

Sense 3
dateless, endless, sempiternal -- (having no known beginning and presumably no end; "the dateless rise and fall of the tides"; "time is endless"; "sempiternal truth")

INDIRECT (VIA infinite) -> finite -- (bounded or limited in magnitude or spatial or temporal extent)

Sense 4
endless -- (having the ends united so as to form a continuous whole; "an endless chain")

INDIRECT (VIA continuous) -> discontinuous, noncontinuous -- (not continuing without interruption in time or space; "discontinuous applause"; "the landscape was a discontinuous mosaic of fields and forest areas"; "he received a somewhat haphazard and discontinuous schooling")

Similarity of adj endless

4 senses of endless

Sense 1
endless, eternal, interminable -- (tiresomely long; seemingly without end; "endless debates"; "an endless conversation"; "the wait seemed eternal"; "eternal quarreling"; "an interminable sermon")
       => long (vs. short) -- (primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified; "a long life"; "a long boring speech"; "a long time"; "a long friendship"; "a long game"; "long ago"; "an hour long")

Sense 2
endless -- (infinitely great in number; "endless waves")
       => infinite (vs. finite) -- (having no limits or boundaries in time or space or extent or magnitude; "the infinite ingenuity of man"; "infinite wealth")

Sense 3
dateless, endless, sempiternal -- (having no known beginning and presumably no end; "the dateless rise and fall of the tides"; "time is endless"; "sempiternal truth")
       => infinite (vs. finite) -- (having no limits or boundaries in time or space or extent or magnitude; "the infinite ingenuity of man"; "infinite wealth")

Sense 4
endless -- (having the ends united so as to form a continuous whole; "an endless chain")
       => continuous (vs. discontinuous), uninterrupted -- (continuing in time or space without interruption; "a continuous rearrangement of electrons in the solar atoms results in the emission of light"- James Jeans; "a continuous bout of illness lasting six months"; "lived in continuous fear"; "a continuous row of warehouses"; "a continuous line has no gaps or breaks in it"; "moving midweek holidays to the nearest Monday or Friday allows uninterrupted work weeks")

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