bottomless

[ bot-uhm-lis ]

/ ˈbɒt əm lɪs /

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adjective

lacking a bottom.

immeasurably deep.

unfathomable; mysterious: a bottomless problem.

without bounds; unlimited: He seems to have a bottomless supply of money.

without basis, cause, or reason: a bottomless accusation.

nude or nearly nude below as well as above the waist: bottomless dancers.

featuring bottomless entertainers: a bottomless club.

Nearby words

bottom-of-the-line, bottom-up, bottom-up processing, bottom-up programming, bottoming, bottomless, bottomless pit, bottommost, bottomry, bottoms up, bottomset bed

Origin of bottomless

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

SYNONYMS FOR bottomless

4 boundless, infinite, inexhaustible.

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Related formsbot·tom·less·ly, adverbbot·tom·less·ness, noun

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Examples from the Web for bottomless

He insists that there is a “bottomless warren of unanswered questions surrounding that day and its aftermath.”
Celebrity Conspiracy Theorists: Courtney Love Finds Malaysian Flight 370|Amy Zimmerman|March 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Behind her, a family that until now had been looking forward to some Bottomless Soup and Salad is dismayed.
Frank Underwood Will Not Tolerate Insubordination in This Olive Garden|Kelly Williams Brown|February 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Just a slow inexorable tightening of cold inescapable dread, ending in bottomless grief and loss.
Carsten Stroud’s Book Bag: My Top Five Horror Classics|Carsten Stroud|July 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Meanwhile, billions of dollars of foreign aid are pumped into a bottomless pit that most ordinary Palestinians never see.
Kerry's Gas Field Plan Won't Make Palestine a Better Place|Matthew Kalman|May 28, 2013|DAILY BEAST

There are things she could do, sure, to put an end to that bottomless hole she seems to be digging.
Why Do We Still Hate Gwyneth Paltrow?|Kevin Fallon|May 2, 2013|DAILY BEAST
There was such a bottomless depth in her eyes that it was impossible to guess truly.
A Laodicean|Thomas Hardy
Then I dreamed of being seized in the powerful grasp of some gigantic demon, and hurried away to the bottomless pit.
My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson|George Thompson
It seemed like a lusty myth, whose succulent and searching roots were in a bottomless bog, with little chance of sound foundation.
Wild Animals at Home|Ernest Thompson Seton
Here she lives, sheltered in a glow of comfort and color, while I hang by my finger-ends over a bottomless pit.
Wayside Courtships|Hamlin Garland
Out of the bottomless profundities the gigantic tail seems spasmodically snatching at the highest heaven.
Moby Dick; or The Whale|Herman Melville

British Dictionary definitions for bottomless

bottomless

/ (ˈbɒtəmlɪs) /

adjective

having no bottom

unlimited; inexhaustible

very deep

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Word Origin and History for bottomless

bottomless

adj.

early 14c., from bottom + -less.

bottomless

adjective

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British Dictionary definitions for bottomless

bottomless

adjective

Word Origin and History for bottomless

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