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endorheic

adj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˌɛndə(ʊ)ˈɹiːɪk/
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  • General-American: /ˌɛndoʊˈɹiɪk/
  • General-American: /ˌɛndə-/
  • General-American: /-ˈreɪɪk/

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adj

Meaning 1

Of a basin or lake: having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation or seepage into the ground.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Topics: geography, hydrology, natural-sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: closed, terminal

Antonyms: exorheic

History

Etymology

PIE word *h1én From English endo- (prefix meaning ‘internal, inside, within’) + Ancient Greek ῥέω (rhéō, “to flow, gush, stream”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow, stream”)) + English -ic (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining’ to forming adjectives).

Across languages

Translations

35 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Basque: endorreiko — having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation
  • Belarusian: бяссцёкавая (bjasscjókavaja) — having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation
  • Bulgarian: безотточна (bezottočna) — having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation
  • Chinese Mandarin: 內流 /内流 (nèiliú) — having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation
  • Czech: bezodtoký — having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation
  • Danish: endorheisk — having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation
  • Dutch: endoreïsch — having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation
  • Esperanto: senelflua — having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation
  • Estonian: äravooluta — having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation
  • Finnish: sisäinen — having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation
  • French: endoréique — having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation
  • Galician: endorreico — having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation
  • Georgian: გაუდინარი (gaudinari) — having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation
  • German: endorheisch — having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation
  • Hungarian: lefolyástalan — having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation
  • Indonesian: endoreik — having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation
  • Italian: endoreico — having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation
  • Kazakh: ағынсыз (ağynsyz) — having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation
  • Korean: 내륙 유역 (naeryuk yuyeok) — having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation
  • Latin: endorheicus — having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation
  • Latvian: beznoteces — having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation
  • Norwegian Bokmål: endorheisk — having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: endorheisk — having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation
  • Occitan: endoreïc — having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation
  • Polish: bezodpływowy — having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation
  • Portuguese: endorreico — having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation
  • Romanian: endoreic — having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation
  • Russian: бессточный (besstočnyj) — having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation
  • Sardinian: endoréicu — having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation
  • Serbo-Croatian: endoreičan — having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation
  • Slovene: endoreičen — having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation
  • Spanish: endorreico — having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation
  • Swedish: endorheisk — having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation
  • Turkish: kapalı — having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation
  • Ukrainian: безсті́чна (bezstíčna) — having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation
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