shoreless

[shawr-lis, shohr-]

adjective

limitless; boundless.
without a shore or beach suitable for landing: a shoreless island.

Origin of shoreless

First recorded in 1620–30; shore¹ + -less

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Examples from the Web for shoreless

Historical Examples

They might have been on a shoreless waste of water for all that they were able to see.
Billy Topsail & Company
Norman Duncan
Oswald Langdon as dissolved dewdrop in shoreless sea were too vague.
Oswald Langdon
Carson Jay Lee
The setting sun was sinking apparently into the shoreless waters of the lake, in the west.
The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago
John S. C. Abbott
A moment in the life of ages,—a bubble on the shoreless sea.
Zanoni
Edward Bulwer Lytton
He looked again at the shoreless West and tried to grasp it.
Mr. Achilles
Jennette Lee

British Dictionary definitions for shoreless

shoreless

adjective

without a shore suitable for landing
poetic boundless; vastthe shoreless wastes

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Examples from the Web for shoreless

Historical Examples

They might have been on a shoreless waste of water for all that they were able to see.

Oswald Langdon as dissolved dewdrop in shoreless sea were too vague.

The setting sun was sinking apparently into the shoreless waters of the lake, in the west.

A moment in the life of ages,—a bubble on the shoreless sea.

He looked again at the shoreless West and tried to grasp it.

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Origin of shoreless