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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
infinitely
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
infinitely preferable (=much better)
▪ In warm weather, clothes made of natural fabrics are infinitely preferable .
infinitely superior (=very much better)
▪ You’d be better off visiting the infinitely superior Imperial War Museum.
infinitely worse (=very much worse)
▪ My fate could have been infinitely worse.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
▪ They feel nurture is of infinitely greater importance than nature.
▪ The clog on the market in equities must be infinitely greater.
ill
▪ I didn't like having my teeth drilled but extractions were infinitely worse.
▪ Julia took two deep breaths, felt infinitely worse and tapped on the mahogany panel of the door.
▪ Yet my fate could have been infinitely worse.
▪ But it is infinitely worse if you are so divided that it is apparent you can not take any action at all.
preferable
▪ In retrospect, dying of the disease itself would seem infinitely preferable to the agonies of death from mercury poisoning.
▪ As a class, professional golfers are swell well-scrubbed chaps and chaplets, infinitely preferable to professional wrestlers or professional loan sharks.
▪ It was fantastic and, I must confess, infinitely preferable to staying on my feet for two hours.
▪ However good they might be as students, their families feel that marriage is infinitely preferable to a college career.
▪ As exorcisms go, it was infinitely preferable to hurling verbal stakes at a callow Cambridge offspinner.
small
▪ Their gravitational attraction would thus curve up the universe to infinitely small size.
▪ Otis, who bore lifelong grudges over provocations infinitely smaller than this, was realistic enough to know when he was had.
▪ Then he swabbed the body down with a sticky powder, which removed a dozen infinitely small particles stuck to the skin.
▪ All these shapes posses a hierarchical structure extending to infinitely small scales.
variable
▪ The sensor can be adjusted through 180° horizontally and 90° vertically, so the detection zone is therefore almost infinitely variable.
▪ Combinations are infinitely variable and the ultimate choice of elements will be determined by the requirements of a particular application.
well
▪ Even the most tenuous thread of story is infinitely better than none at all.
▪ Valerie Wright is talented in every department and therefore infinitely better than Neuwirth, but Pope would have been that much better.
▪ That is bad enough of course, but infinitely better than two Mobs scrapping.
▪ The refusal to see it, to be touched by it, which was so infinitely better than either sympathy or enthusiasm.
▪ It tasted infinitely better than anything she had ever made for herself.
■ VERB
seem
▪ In retrospect, dying of the disease itself would seem infinitely preferable to the agonies of death from mercury poisoning.
▪ Any thought of danger seemed infinitely remote.
▪ A pilgrimage to Jerusalem would have seemed infinitely remote to most adventurous folk in the early Middle Ages.
▪ The merest action I managed to take seemed infinitely long in completing.
▪ But any investigation into his biography seems infinitely more satisfying by reason of his virtue, his courage and his devotion to duty.
vary
▪ Throughout its range of 2 octaves it is capable of infinitely varied coloration and texture, from silky velvet to deliberate ugliness.
▪ Individual constellations of these requirements are infinitely varied, of course.
▪ His material is leather, and his specialty is fitting a saddle to the infinitely varied human pelvis.
▪ The conditions under which this manifestation is excited are infinitely varied, according to the nature of particular bodies.
▪ The designs are unique, individual, can be infinitely varied each time.
▪ Not surprisingly, the financial position of fringe bodies is almost infinitely varied.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Our new office building is infinitely better than the old one.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Infinitely

Infinitely \In"fi*nite*ly\, adv.

  1. Without bounds or limits; beyond or below assignable limits; as, an infinitely large or infinitely small quantity.

  2. Very; exceedingly; vastly; highly; extremely. ``Infinitely pleased.''
    --Dryden.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
infinitely

early 15c., from infinite + -ly (2).

Wiktionary
infinitely

adv. 1 in an infinite manner; as of anything growing without bounds; endlessly 2 To a surpassingly large extent.

WordNet
infinitely

  1. adv. without bounds; "he is infinitely wealthy" [syn: boundlessly, immeasurably]

  2. continuing forever without end; "there are infinitely many possibilities" [syn: endlessly] [ant: finitely]

Usage examples of "infinitely".

He might compare the trustworthy goodness of Albus Dumbledore to the infinitely superior goodness of God the Father, stressing that we can find the same kind of reassurance in God, and godly mentors, that Harry finds in his headmaster.

Now Paulvitch had no intention of permitting himself to fall into the hands of Tarzan of the Apes if he could possibly avoid it, and while the terrors of the jungle appalled him they were, to his mind, infinitely preferable to the certain death which he knew he merited and for which he might look at the hands of the ape-man.

He saw above him, in the clearness of the storm-scoured waning day, what appeared to be a golden structure rising from the summit, its shape a reassuring and infinitely calming sweep of dual archlike parabolas.

But the truth was, Argemone thought herself infinitely superior to the colonel, for which simple reason she could not in the least understand him.

As the Skraeling threat grew infinitely worse, he had quickly realized this was a sign that the Prophecy had awoken and now walked.

They can only be used once against the curse burrs, but are infinitely reusable against goblins.

His thoughts were interrupted when the rank meatiness of the odour of lunch was suddenly overlaid by something infinitely more unpleasant - a foul miasma of decay that intensified with each step that Astoroth took towards the stateroom where Nostrilamus, the once powerful Malefica of Caledon, was fighting his last battle with the foe none could vanquish.

We have had it our way, relatively speaking, being unique all these years, and it will be hard to deal with the thought that the whole, infinitely huge, spinning, clocklike apparatus around us is itself animate, and can sprout life whenever the conditions are right.

Tahn ship, hoping none of the Big Ugly Clots had altered their orbits, and the destroyers and probe ships ran infinitely variable patrols using a central plotting point cross-triangulated from the three nearest stars, and crossed fingers.

He most easily retains and repeats, among the infinitely manifold consonants that are produced by loud expiration, those which have been distinctly heard by him.

Instead she lowered her gaze, absorbing every detail of his chest, as though he were an infinitely intriguing tapestry of dark curls and sleek muscle.

Ruth on TV for answers to rudimentary anatomical questions, it would seem infinitely more responsible for these esteemed wives and mothers to demand a full-scale Congressional demystification of the subject.

The minor key in which the Sclavonic folksong was usually couched, together with its extraordinary variety of rhythm and phrase, protected it from this monotony, the minor keys having infinitely richer resources of colour, even when strictly diatonically treated, than the major.

For Dunkerque is not at the mouth of any great river, but those places are, and this would make the shipping infinitely easier.

Arriving at infinitesimals, mathematics, the most exact of sciences, abandons the process of analysis and enters on the new process of the integration of unknown, infinitely small, quantities.