different between boundless vs interminate

English

Etymology

bound +? -less

Adjective

boundless (comparative more boundless, superlative most boundless)

1. Without bounds, unbounded.
   • 1785, William Cowper, “The Garden”, in The Task, a Poem, in Six Books. By William Cowper [...] To which are Added, by the Same Author, An Epistle to Joseph Hill, Esq. Tirocinium, or a Review of Schools, and The History of John Gilpin, London: Printed for J[oseph] Johnson, No. 72 St. Paul's Church-Yard, OCLC 221351486; republished as The Task. A Poem. In Six Books. To which is Added, Tirocinium: or, A Review of Schools, new edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Printed for Thomas Dobson, bookseller, in Second-street, second door above Chestnut-street, 1787, OCLC 23630717, page 87:

     'Tis the cruel gripe, / That lean hard-handed poverty inflicts, / The hope of better things, the chance to win, / The wi?h to ?hine, the thir?t to be amus'd, / That at the found of Winter's hoary wing, / Unpeople all our counties, of ?uch herds, / Of flutt'ring, loit'ring, cringing, begging, loo?e, / And wanton vagrants, as make London, va?t / And boundless as it is, a crowded coop.

Synonyms

• bottomless, limitless, unbottomed, unbounded; see also Thesaurus:infinite

Translations

English

Etymology 1

in- +? terminate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?t??(?)m?n?t/

Adjective

interminate (comparative more interminate, superlative most interminate)

1. Without end or limit; boundless, infinite, interminable.

   Synonym: interminated

Translations

Etymology 2

Latin interminatus, past participle of interminari.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?t??(?)m?ne?t/

Verb

interminate (third-person singular simple present interminates, present participle interminating, simple past and past participle interminated)

1. (obsolete) To menace; to threaten.
   • a. 1656, Bishop Joseph Hall, The Mourner in Sion

     doleful accents of interminated judgments

Related terms

• minatory

Italian

Adjective

interminate

1. feminine plural of interminato

Latin

Participle

intermin?te

1. vocative masculine singular of intermin?tus