3. Indefinitely large or extensive; great; vast; immense; gigantic;
prodigious.
Infinite riches in a little room.
Marlowe.
Which infinite calamity shall cause To human life.
Milton.
4. (Math.) Greater than any assignable quantity of the same kind; --
said of certain quantities.
5. (Mus.) Capable of endless repetition; -- said of certain forms of
the canon, called also perpetual fugues, so constructed that their ends
lead to their beginnings, and the performance may be incessantly
repeated. Moore (Encyc. of Music).
Syn. -- Boundless; immeasurable; illimitable; interminable; limitless;
unlimited; endless; eternal.
In"fi*nite, n. 1. That which is infinite; boundless space or duration;
infinity; boundlessness.
Not till the weight is heaved from off the air, and the thunders
roll down the horizon, will the serene light of God flow upon us,
and the blue infinite embrace us again.
J. Martineau.