bottomless

[bot-uh m-lis]

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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.

Origin of bottomless

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

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

Synonyms

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4. boundless, infinite, inexhaustible.

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Contemporary Examples

He insists that there is a “bottomless warren of unanswered questions surrounding that day and its aftermath.”
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Amy Zimmerman
March 20, 2014
Behind her, a family that until now had been looking forward to some Bottomless Soup and Salad is dismayed.
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Kelly Williams Brown
February 24, 2014
Just a slow inexorable tightening of cold inescapable dread, ending in bottomless grief and loss.
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Carsten Stroud
July 23, 2013
Meanwhile, billions of dollars of foreign aid are pumped into a bottomless pit that most ordinary Palestinians never see.
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Matthew Kalman
May 28, 2013
There are things she could do, sure, to put an end to that bottomless hole she seems to be digging.
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Kevin Fallon
May 2, 2013

Historical Examples

This had suddenly dawned before him like a bottomless abyss.
The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete
Emile Zola
And of the bottomless pit, and the flames of hell everlasting.
Poems
William D. Howells
In some places it seemed as bottomless as a pit of quicksand.
War from the Inside
Frederick L. (Frederick Lyman) Hitchcock
For it seemed to him that it must be the death of him followed by a lightless, bottomless pit.
Within the Tides
Joseph Conrad
To look round the ship was to look into a bottomless, black pit.
The Shadow-Line
Joseph Conrad

British Dictionary definitions for bottomless

bottomless

adjective

having no bottom
unlimited; inexhaustible
very deep

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Word Origin and History for bottomless

adj.

early 14c., from bottom + -less.

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Contemporary Examples

He insists that there is a “bottomless warren of unanswered questions surrounding that day and its aftermath.”

Behind her, a family that until now had been looking forward to some Bottomless Soup and Salad is dismayed.

Just a slow inexorable tightening of cold inescapable dread, ending in bottomless grief and loss.

Meanwhile, billions of dollars of foreign aid are pumped into a bottomless pit that most ordinary Palestinians never see.

There are things she could do, sure, to put an end to that bottomless hole she seems to be digging.

Historical Examples

This had suddenly dawned before him like a bottomless abyss.

And of the bottomless pit, and the flames of hell everlasting.

In some places it seemed as bottomless as a pit of quicksand.

For it seemed to him that it must be the death of him followed by a lightless, bottomless pit.

To look round the ship was to look into a bottomless, black pit.

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Word Origin and History for bottomless

adj.

Origin of bottomless