Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having no bottom.
- adj. Too deep to be measured: a bottomless glacier lake.
- adj. Difficult or impossible to understand; unfathomable: one of the bottomless mysteries of life.
- adj. Having no limitations or bounds; limitless: a bottomless supply of money.
- adj. Nude, especially unclothed below the waist: bottomless dancers.
- adj. Featuring such dancers as entertainment: bottomless bars.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Without a bottom. Hence— Groundless; unsubstantial; false: as, “bottomless speculations,”
- Fathomless; unfathomable; inexhaustible: as, a bottomless abyss or ocean.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having no bottom.
- adj. Extremely deep.
- adj. Having no bounds; limitless.
- adj. Difficult to understand; unfathomable.
- adj. Not wearing clothes below the waist.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Without a bottom; hence, fathomless; baseless.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. extremely deep
- adj. having no apparent limits or bounds
- adj. unclothed especially below the waist or featuring such nudeness
- adj. having no bottom
Etymologies
- bottom + -less (Wiktionary)
Examples
“This is where what I called the bottomless or fathomless self, the last version of the self, makes its appearance.”
“Behind him she saw what she called a bottomless hole filled with light.”
“On the plus side, though, that stuff about it being bottomless is also bunk.”
“Write what you want bottomless from the bottom of the mind”
“Whether they are called bottomless, endless or never-ending, all-you-can-eat promotions are flooding casual-dining outlets as restaurant chains attempt to lure customers to their tables while trying to avoid the pitfalls of previous similar campaigns.”
“Other closets, frankly, can only be classified as bottomless pits.”
“Do you have what some might call a "bottomless" stomach?”
“What China bank earnings are hiding Caixin Online - What some might call a bottomless appetite for investment in China bolstered enviable 2010 financial results for the nation's commercial banks.”
“It is called the bottomless pit, the unquenchable fire, fire and brimstone, hell fire, the lake of fire, devouring fire, everlasting fire, eternal fire, a stream of fire”
“The Indians called the bottomless pit the Devil's Den.”
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Naked
Words relating to getting naked, being naked, the commonly naked, nakedness (partial or complete), and similar.
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-more or -less
Words ending with *more or *less, more or less. Many of theses terms also appear on the list The -less Said, which see.
schemaless, unless, useless, guileless, wireless, regardless, homeless, endless, nevertheless, countless, jobless, doubtless and 434 more...
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The -less Said...
hopeless, bootless, groundless, luckless, artless, feckless, hapless, joyless, useless, penniless, childless, peerless and 310 more...
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miscellany
preposterous, minimalism, outnumbered, subroutine, malinger, oddity, eccentricity, laughable, oxymoronic, interstellar, winter, heedless and 335 more...
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meganashley's Words
mundane, hypothalamo neuro..., phenylalanine, morphology, banal, fedex, pimpology, scrabble, rhythmus, oblivion, paradigm, dogmatic and 43 more...
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Triple Doubles and Other Multiples
inopportune, poussette, clapperless, shoelessness, didgeridoo, sheesh, storyteller, frontierless, slaughterhouse, enfeoff, plantagenet, blunderbuss and 32 more...
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