indefinitely
/ɪnˈdɛfɪnətli
/adverb
1For an unlimited or unspecified period of time: talks cannot go on indefinitely...
- There was a similar operation last year which ran for a short period of time. This crackdown is expected to go on indefinitely.
- If the case went against him, Mr Messenger could be fined, suspended indefinitely or for a fixed period or struck off.
- Is it therefore a tradition that should be perpetuated indefinitely, or should it be abandoned?
Synonyms
for an unspecified time/period, for an unlimited time/period, without a fixed limit;
Law sine die
forever, for always, for good, for good and all, evermore, for ever and ever, for all time, until the end of time, eternally, undyingly, permanently, perpetually, in perpetuity;
British for evermore;
North American forevermore
informal for keeps, until the cows come home, until hell freezes over, until the twelfth of never, until doomsday, until kingdom come
archaic for aye
1.1 [as submodifier] To an unlimited or unspecified degree or extent: an indefinitely large number of channels...
- Indeed, the pentapartito period might have been indefinitely long had it not been for some unexpected events.
- He would uncurl out of an indefinitely lengthy trance, and note with wonder that the ship was going the other way.
- We mean by integration that faculty in the human mind whereby it is able to combine an indefinitely large number of impressions.