Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having no bottom; bottomless.
- Having no solid foundation; having no reliance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Deprived of a bottom.
- adjective Having no bottom; bottomless.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
bottomless
Etymologies
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Examples
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The rest were mere donkey tracks over cultivated unbottomed ground in the valleys, and winding up wadis, over boulders, and through trees in the uplands and hills.
The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919 David Douglas Ogilvie
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Then from cloud to cloud dizzy amazements of white fire staggered, crackled and boomed on to the assault; the doors of the winds were opened; the tanks of deluge were unbottomed; and the storm took the town.
Gentle Julia Booth Tarkington 1907
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All these seventeen false rests were described, and it was shown how the soul, being “unbottomed” off each one successively, settled down at last upon the only true rest in God.
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I was heading up-stream toward a deep sandy-sided pool that was bottomed, or rather unbottomed, by the shadows of overhanging beeches.
Roof and Meadow Dallas Lore Sharp 1899
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