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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

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

It perches on a flat, horizonless stretch of land once known as Mosquito County, but, prudently, was re-christened as Orange County in the 1800s.

From Washington Post • Jun. 16, 2016

It was the horizonless despair of a child; and that profound protest I had so often seen smouldering in his eyes culminated, at its crisis, in a wild flame of revolt.

From The Guest of Quesnay by Tarkington, Booth