Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having no limit or limits; unrestricted: limitless authority; the limitless reaches of outer space.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having no limits; unbounded; illimitable.
- Synonyms Boundless, unlimited, illimitable, infinite.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having no limits; unbounded; boundless.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having no limits in range or scope
- adj. seemingly boundless in amount, number, degree, or especially extent
- adj. without limits in extent or size or quantity
Etymologies
- limit + -less (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Lopez 1995, which held unconstitutional a federal law banning guns in school zones as beyond Congress's powers, Justice Thomas called on the court to reverse decades of case law that had transformed the legislature's authority "to regulate Commerce . . . among the several States" into what he described as a limitless "police power.”
“Well Ralph your comments seem to contain limitless value.”
Think Progress » Chuck Todd: ‘The Tea Party gets a big benefit’ from Fox News’ promotion.
“This technology allows immediate processing of this decoded information for use in limitless mobile commerce applications: streaming music, view trailers, download ringtones, access information ‚ Ķ Camera phones become personal, wireless, and interactive barcode scanners ... consumers can point at a barcode and immediately access multiple contents related to that code.”
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Camera phones as barcode scanners
“For example, if a free copy of a dvd is given to a paid for and dishonest movie critic by the movie producer (a frequent phenomena), it may and likekely result in limitless number of copies.”
“There the birds stood side by side close together and gobbled grub-worms which must have been found there in limitless numbers, for it was very evident that there was never any complaint over a lack of food.”
“It’s just something I’ve seen floating around; I know plenty of monogamous people who believe in limitless love, but sexual exclusivity.”
“But if music were in limitless supply for a flat fee, they’d gladly participate.”
“Social entrepreneurship is built on the notion of limitless possibility and women have embraced that opportunity in large numbers and to stunning success.”
The Huffington Post: Alison Craiglow Hockenberry: A 'Master Class' for Making a Difference
“And, you know, I keep using this word limitless but it really is.”
“While the amount of potential ad inventory that can be created in new Web pages is virtually limitless, that isn't true for the amount of ad dollars available.”
The Wall Street Journal: Not Enough Slices In Web Ad-Dollar Pie
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘limitless’.
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EN - fine scholarly language
exhort, accretion, twenty-nine, atrophy, additive, brilliantly, interreligious, empiricism, pathologic, limitless, half-century, vigilant and 488 more...
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Words For Novel (Part 2)
fable, sprite, syphilitic, anvil, wonderstruck, vertigo, bridled, tufted, fettered, savvy, tweed fedora, tryst and 255 more...
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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, jobless, endless, useless, unless, guileless, wireless, regardless, homeless, nevertheless, countless, doubtless and 434 more...
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Best words in Beatles songs
kaleidoscope, plasticine, porters, tangerine, marmalade, cellophane, turnstile, marshmallow, lingers, slither, restless, limitless and 91 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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Theme Prompts
There's a fiction meme (mostly on Livejournal) where writers use words as a prompt for a short story snippet. I've been collecting the words that show up on these lists as prompts for creative writ...
white, black, gray, red, orange, yellow, green, indigo, violet, queen, king, prince and 407 more...
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Lovality
one's ability to love and be loved
infinite, unconditional, limitless, beyond, openly, honestly, truthfully, capability, beautifilling
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