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horizonless

American  
[huh-rahy-zuhn-lis] / həˈraɪ zən lɪs /

adjective

  1. lacking or without a horizon.

  2. without hope; hopeless.


Etymology

Origin of horizonless

horizon + -less

Example Sentences

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They are noticers despite the days of horizonless work.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 3, 2021

In the opening section, we find ourselves literally at sea in a clip from Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha’s 1967 “Entranced Earth,” showing, in aerial view, a swelling, glittering, apparently horizonless Atlantic Ocean.

From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2018

It is a dark silhouette against a horizonless surround, in which the white ice of the foreground grades into a lightly greying sky.

From The Guardian • Jul. 28, 2018

In front of us, there is nothing but horizonless blue ocean.

From Scientific American • Feb. 12, 2018

Then for hours there would be no land at all, only the wonderful horizonless blue of water and sky, the sunlight on the waves so dazzlingly bright as to hurt the eyes.

From A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route by Russel, Florence Kimball