• (British) IPA: /ˈɪnfɪnɪt/
• (America) IPA: /ˈɪnfɪnɪt/, /ˈɪnfənɪt/

infinite

1. Indefinably large, countlessly great; immense. [from 14th c.]
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 40, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book I, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:

     The number is so infinite, that verily it would be an easier matter for me to reckon up those that have feared the same.

   • 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 cannot sink.

   • infinite riches in a little room

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 9”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     which infinite calamity shall cause to human life

2. Boundless, endless, without end or limits; innumerable. [from 15th c.]
   • Bible, Psalms cxlvii. 5

     Great is our Lord, and of great power; his understanding is infinite.

3. (with plural noun) Infinitely many. [from 15th c.]
   • 2012, Helen Donelan, ‎Karen Kear, ‎Magnus Ramage, Online Communication and Collaboration: A Reader

     Huxley's theory says that if you provide infinite monkeys with infinite typewriters, some monkey somewhere will eventually create a masterpiece – a play by Shakespeare, a Platonic dialogue, or an economic treatise by Adam Smith.

4. (mathematics) Greater than any positive quantity or magnitude; limitless. [from 17th c.]
5. (set theory, of a set) Having infinitely many elements.

   • For any infinite set, there is a 1-1 correspondence between it and at least one of its proper subsets. For example, there is a 1-1 correspondence between the set of natural numbers and the set of squares of natural numbers, which is a proper subset of the set of natural numbers.

6. (grammar) Not limited by person or number. [from 19th c.]
7. (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.

• (indefinably large) immeasurable, inestimable, vast
• (without end or limits) amaranthine, boundless, endless, interminable, limitless, unbounded, unending, unlimited; see also Thesaurus:infinite or Thesaurus:eternal
• (infinitely many) countless; see also Thesaurus:innumerable

• finite
• infinitesimal
• limited

• infinitive

• French: infini
• German: unendlich, endlos, unzählige
• Portuguese: infinito
• Russian: бесконе́чный

• French: infini
• German: unendlich, endlos, unbegrenzt, unbeschränkt
• Italian: infinito
• Portuguese: infinito
• Russian: бесконе́чный
• Spanish: infinito

• French: un nombre infini de

• German: unendlich
• Portuguese: infinito
• Russian: бесконе́чный

• French: infini
• German: unendlich groß
• Portuguese: infinito
• Russian: бесконе́чный

1. Infinitely many.

infinite (plural infinites)

1. Something that is infinite in nature.
   • 2004, Teun Koetsier, ‎Luc Bergmans, Mathematics and the Divine: A Historical Study (page 449)

     Cautiously, Hobbes avoided asserting the equality of these infinites, and explicitly characterized the relation between them as non-inequality.