bottomless

[bot-uhm-lis]

adjective

1. lacking a bottom.

2. immeasurably deep.

3. unfathomable; mysterious.

   a bottomless problem.

4. without bounds; unlimited.

   He seems to have a bottomless supply of money.

   Synonyms: inexhaustible, infinite, boundless

5. without basis, cause, or reason.

   a bottomless accusation.

6. nude or nearly nude below as well as above the waist.

   bottomless dancers.

7. featuring bottomless entertainers.

   a bottomless club.

bottomless

/ ˈbɒtəmlɪs /

adjective

1. having no bottom

2. unlimited; inexhaustible

3. very deep

Other Word Forms

• bottomlessly adverb
• bottomlessness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of bottomless¹

1275–1325; Middle English botomles. See bottom, -less; bottomless 6, 7 on the model of topless

Example Sentences

Whether developing habits, finding new hobbies or digging out from a bottomless pit of emails, change is hard—and requires a mindset shift as well as persistence.

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But those eyes were unmistakable—dark as twin smudges of pitch, dangerous as a pair of bottomless wells.

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And those eyes—black they were, and bottomless as tiny twin tar pits.

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Losing your job is traumatic, and you may feel like you’re in a bottomless pit, but try to view this as a transitional period, not a permanent sentence.

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With the genre claiming 17% of the domestic box office for 2025, production studios are eager to feed our seemingly bottomless appetite for cinematic grotesques, especially those based on true stories.

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Related Words

• boundless 
• endless 
• infinite 
• unending 
• unfathomable 
• unlimited 
• vast