bottomless

American  

[bot-uhm-lis] / ˈbɒt əm lɪs /

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.

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bottomless British  

/ ˈbɒtəmlɪs /

adjective

1. having no bottom

2. unlimited; inexhaustible

3. very deep

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Other Word Forms

• bottomlessly adverb
• bottomlessness noun

Etymology

Origin of bottomless

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

Example Sentences

Another banner year at the Celebrity Memoir Factory — a seemingly bottomless font of origin stories, trauma dumps and D-list confessions.

From Los Angeles Times

According to the Bath & Body Works website, the Chips & Salsa candle flaunts notes of “bottomless tortilla chips and fresh salsa,” while the Pizza & Ranch candle touts a redolence of “gooey cheese, crispy pepperonis and ranch.”

From Salon

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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From Literature

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

From Literature

Related Words

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