boundless
Americanadjective
adjective
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Origin of boundless
Explanation
Something that's boundless has no limits or restrictions. Your dog's boundless energy might leave you exhausted, since it never seems to end. The adjective boundless is often used to mean "huge" or "immense." Your local Christmas tree farm, for example, might seem boundless as you walk through the rows of evergreens that stretch as far as you can see. If your little brother has boundless enthusiasm for superheros, he's probably capable of talking about Batman for hours. The noun bound originally meant "limit," from the Old French word bonde, "limit or boundary," so boundless means "without limit."
Vocabulary lists containing boundless
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Example Sentences
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“Was Tennyson ever young?” asks Richard Holmes at the opening of his superb biography, “The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science, and the Crisis of Belief.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
Those things could be linked, according to a report released Monday by Boundless Immigration, a tech company that helps people navigate immigration processes.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2023
Boundless estimates that nearly 300,000 would-be citizens should have been eligible to vote in the 2020 elections but were unable to cast a ballot because of the suspension of naturalization services.
From New York Times • Jan. 2, 2023
"Boundless: 10 Years of Seeding Black Comic Futures" features memorabilia, photos and comic books by Black writers and illustrators that focus on Black heroes.
From Reuters • Jan. 20, 2022
Boundless love, and fidelity up to every proof.
From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Hall, Henry Foljambe
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