Download the app
educalingo
indefinitely
" According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment in time."
Pema Chodron

Meaning of "indefinitely" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF INDEFINITELY

ɪnˈdɛfɪnɪtlɪ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INDEFINITELY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Indefinitely is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES INDEFINITELY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Indefinite

Indefinite may refer to: ▪ In mathematics: ▪ When talking about indefinite forms in multilinear algebra, see definite bilinear form. ▪ "Indefinite integral" refers to the antiderivative. ▪ "Indefinite" is sometimes used to describe an unknowable quantity, with meaning similar to "unlimited" or "undetermined". ▪ In grammar, see indefinite article and indefinite pronoun.

Definition of indefinitely in the English dictionary

The definition of indefinitely in the dictionary is without any limit of time or number.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INDEFINITELY

alternately · approximately · definitely · disordinately · explicitly · fortunately · geminately · greatly · importunately · indeterminately · infinitely · lately · lightly · predeterminately · slightly · ternately · tightly · tripinnately · ultimately · unfortunately

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INDEFINITELY

indefeasibility · indefeasible · indefeasibleness · indefeasibly · indefectibility · indefectible · indefectibly · indefensibility · indefensible · indefensibleness · indefensibly · indefinability · indefinable · indefinableness · indefinably · indefinite · indefinite article · indefinite integral · indefinite pronoun · indefiniteness

WORDS THAT END LIKE INDEFINITELY

absolutely · appositely · bipartitely · compositely · contritely · eruditely · expeditely · exquisitely · finitely · impolitely · inappositely · inconditely · oppositely · politely · reconditely · requisitely · titely · tripartitely · tritely · unpolitely · whitely

Synonyms and antonyms of indefinitely in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «INDEFINITELY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «indefinitely» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «indefinitely» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF INDEFINITELY

Find out the translation of indefinitely to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of indefinitely from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «indefinitely» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

无限期地
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

indefinidamente
570 millions of speakers
en

English

indefinitely
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

अनिश्चित काल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

إلى أجل غير مسمى
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

на неопределенный срок
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

indefinidamente
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

অনিশ্চিতভাবে
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

indéfiniment
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Selama-lamanya
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

auf unbestimmte Zeit
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

無期限に
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

무기한으로
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Tanpa wates
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vô thời hạn
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

காலவரையின்றி
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

अनिश्चित काळासाठी
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

süresiz olarak
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

indefinitamente
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

na czas nieokreślony
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

на невизначений термін
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

termen nelimitat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

επ ´αόριστον
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onbepaald
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

obestämd tid
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ubestemt tid
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of indefinitely

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INDEFINITELY»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of indefinitely
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «indefinitely».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about indefinitely

EXAMPLES

10 QUOTES WITH «INDEFINITELY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word indefinitely.
1
Joseph Addison
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
2
Hannes Alfven
There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
3
Steve Aoki
I like looking at a future where we're expanding our creativity and brightening our lives. I believe that eventually we'll get to a point where we'll be able to live indefinitely through our technology.
4
Pema Chodron
According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment in time.
5
Christian Dior
Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.
6
John Garamendi
Allowing suspects to indefinitely linger in our cells is, in fact, detrimental to our national security goals. If a suspect is proven to be a terrorist, for the sake of the victims and deterring any future attacks, he or she must be brought to justice. America has done this with Timothy McVeigh and hundreds of other terrorists.
7
Murray Gell-Mann
Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition.
8
Keith Henson
Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards.
9
Cynthia Kenyon
In principle, if you understood the mechanisms of keeping things repaired, you could keep things going indefinitely.
10
Louis Leakey
To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INDEFINITELY»

Discover the use of indefinitely in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to indefinitely and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Indefinitely
Without a definite start point, it ends with its subject within the text in a way that shows "art for art's sake.
Halil Sonmez, 2006
2
Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse: Essays in Honor ...
Theoretically one can keep on conjoining sentences, or keep on embedding sentences so that the final product can be indefinitely long. Thus, the notion of " generating sentences" is based on the concept of the re-writing rule in logic. If you can ...
Joan L. Bybee, Michael Noonan, 2002
3
Leadership: Personal Development and Career Success
Note: If the motion to postpone definitely passes, the main motion is treated as unfinished business in the March meeting. If it fails, the assembly returns to discussion of the main motion. MOTION TO POSTPONE INDEFINITELY Rationale ...
Cliff Ricketts, John Ricketts, 2010
4
The Handbook of Rational Choice Social Research
the trustee and not at all to the incentives of the trustor.3 This highlights that placing and honoring trust in the indefinitely repeated Trust Game is driven by the strategic interdependence of the actors. If condition (1) applies, the indefinitely ...
Rafael Wittek, Tom Snijders, Victor Nee, 2013
5
Understanding the Infinite
The kinds of considerations just presented are the chief evidence for the main thesis that the notion of a combinatorial set is just an extrapolated version of the notion of an indefinitely large set. The fit between the two is just too good to be ...
Shaughan LAVINE, Shaughan Lavine, 2009
6
The first three sections of Newton's Principia. With notes ...
39) A B, A b, aud suppose the /_ of contact BADw the 1st case to be indefinitely greater than the Z of contact b A D in the other ; then shall the curvature of AH be indefinitely greater than that of A b ; and conversely. Let A I, A i be the diameters ...
Isaac Newton (sir.), John Carr, 1826
7
The first three sections of Newton's Principia: with copious ...
39) A B, A b, aud suppose the /_ of contact BADis the 1st case to be indefinitely greater than the Z of contact b A D in the other ; then shall the curvature of A3 be indefinitely greater than that of A b ; and conversely. Let ALA* be the diameters of  ...
Sir Isaac Newton, John Carr, 1826
8
Linguistic Creativity: Exercises in 'Philosophical Therapy'
Hence: If speakers can indeed understand indefinitely many new sentences of our object-language, their language-comprehension system, and hence the speakers themselves, will possess all along semantic information about indefinitely ...
E. Fischer, 2000
9
Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Ohio
24, indefinitely postponed, 210. 25, passed,' 107. 28, " 311. 29, “ 119. 32, “ 106. 35, “ 600. 89, indefinitely postponed, 374. 48, passed, 106. 49, indefinitely postponed, 187. 52, passed, 557. 54, indefinitely postponed, 187. 55, passed, 143.
Ohio. General Assembly. House of Representatives, 1860
10
Code of Federal Regulations, Title 9, Animals and Animal ...
74 FR Page Chapter I-Continued (b)(2) introductory text corrected; eff. date delayed indefinitely ..................................... ..22091 93.900 Regulation at 73 FR 52186 eff. date delayed indefinitely ........................................... ..1 93.901-93.906 ...
Office of the Federal Register (U S ), U. s. Government Printing Office, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INDEFINITELY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term indefinitely is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Colquitt County starting RB arrested on charges of murder …
... arrested on charges of murder and Criminal Intent to Commit Armed Robbery, has been suspended indefinitely by head coach Rush Propst. «Atlanta Journal Constitution, Jul 15»
2
Banning single-use plastic bags indefinitely postponed by council …
Rockport Mayor C.J. Wax, after hearing almost one hour of opinions, ranging from timid to heated, made the motion to “indefinitely postpone ... «Rockport Pilot, Jul 15»
3
Monica Wright of Minnesota Lynx out indefinitely following surgery
Lynx guard Monica Wright out indefinitely after knee surgery. 10h - WNBA Monica ... The Lynx announced that Wright will be out indefinitely. «ESPN, Jul 15»
4
Orlando City's Brek Shea undergoes hernia surgery, out indefinitely
Defender-midfielder Brek Shea will be sidelined indefinitely after undergoing sports hernia surgery, depriving Orlando of another key option out ... «FOXSports.com, Jul 15»
5
Sickness absence does not extend unused holiday leave indefinitely
In the case Plumb v Duncan Print Group the Employment Appeal Tribunal had to decide whether a worker who had been off sick for nearly four ... «CIPD, Jul 15»
6
League of Legends Ranked Matchmaking Indefinitely Banned Over …
They have taken this action as a consequence of a bug affecting the Recall ability. Recall, like using a hearthstone in World of Warcraft, allows ... «Gameranx, Jul 15»
7
States cannot indefinitely wait for consensus on land acquisition …
"An important suggestion that came was that Centre should endeavour to create a consensus but states cannot indefinitely wait for that ... «Firstpost, Jul 15»
8
Proposed Paynesville wind farm stalled indefinitely
PAYNESVILLE – A proposed wind project that was supposed to make Stearns County a leader in renewable energy production and provide ... «St. Cloud Times, Jul 15»
9
Dallin Watene-Zelezniak sidelined indefinitely after being … - ABC
Penrith's Dallin Watene-Zelezniak has been sidelined indefinitely after being hospitalised with a collapsed lung. The Panthers back was ... «ABC Online, Jul 15»
10
IPL Premiership Cup put on hold indefinitely
MUMBAI: The Indian Premier League (IPL) Premiership Cup - an alternate that the BCCI was planning as replacement for the Champions ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Indefinitely [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/indefinitely>. Jun 2024 ».
Download the educalingo app
EN