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horizonless

American  
[huh-rahy-zuhn-lis] / həˈraɪ zən lɪs /

adjective

  1. lacking or without a horizon.

  2. without hope; hopeless.


Etymology

Origin of horizonless

horizon + -less

Example Sentences

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They are noticers despite the days of horizonless work.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 3, 2021

In the opening section, we find ourselves literally at sea in a clip from Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha’s 1967 “Entranced Earth,” showing, in aerial view, a swelling, glittering, apparently horizonless Atlantic Ocean.

From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2018

It is a dark silhouette against a horizonless surround, in which the white ice of the foreground grades into a lightly greying sky.

From The Guardian • Jul. 28, 2018

In front of us, there is nothing but horizonless blue ocean.

From Scientific American • Feb. 12, 2018

Only for the few lights at the corrals and bunk-house, it seemed a great, horizonless sea of darkness–for there was no moon and a haze had enveloped the high stars since twilight.

From Frances of the Ranges The Old Ranchman's Treasure by Marlowe, Amy Bell

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