shoreless

[ shawr-lis, shohr- ]

adjective

1. limitless; boundless.
2. without a shore or beach suitable for landing:

   a shoreless island.

shoreless

/ ˈʃɔːlɪs /

adjective

1. without a shore suitable for landing
2. poetic.
   boundless; vast

   the shoreless wastes

Word History and Origins

Origin of shoreless¹

First recorded in 1620–30; shore ¹ + -less

Example Sentences

The thought was Norden's, reflected to Taylor from the shoreless depths of the energy brain.

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In ten minutes the Comfort was, to all appearances, alone on a shoreless sea, and I was the only living creature in the universe.

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In her concrete material form this vessel, destined to navigate the shoreless Ocean of Space, is English.

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Beyond them, they thought, there was nothing but a vast expanse of water—a shoreless ocean—a mystery never to be solved.

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The mountains are covered—a shoreless sea rolls round the world, and on its billows are billions of corpses.

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