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[ bot-uhm-lis ] / ˈbɒt əm lɪs / SEE SYNONYMS FOR bottomless ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivelacking a bottom. immeasurably deep. unfathomable; mysterious: a bottomless problem. without bounds; unlimited: He seems to have a bottomless supply of money. without basis, cause, or reason: a bottomless accusation. nude or nearly nude below as well as above the waist: bottomless dancers. featuring bottomless entertainers: a bottomless club. Origin of bottomless1275–1325; Middle English botomles.See bottom, -less; 6, 7 on the model of topless SYNONYMS FOR bottomless4 boundless, infinite, inexhaustible. SEE SYNONYMS FOR bottomless ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM bottomlessbot·tom·less·ly, adverbbot·tom·less·ness, nounWords nearby bottomlessbottom house, bottom ice, bottoming, bottom lady, bottom land, bottomless, bottomless pit, bottom line, bottom-liner, bottommost, bottom of the barrel Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for bottomlessHe insists that there is a “bottomless warren of unanswered questions surrounding that day and its aftermath.” Celebrity Conspiracy Theorists: Courtney Love Finds Malaysian Flight 370|Amy Zimmerman|March 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST Behind her, a family that until now had been looking forward to some Bottomless Soup and Salad is dismayed. Frank Underwood Will Not Tolerate Insubordination in This Olive Garden|Kelly Williams Brown|February 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST Just a slow inexorable tightening of cold inescapable dread, ending in bottomless grief and loss. Carsten Stroud’s Book Bag: My Top Five Horror Classics|Carsten Stroud|July 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST Meanwhile, billions of dollars of foreign aid are pumped into a bottomless pit that most ordinary Palestinians never see. Kerry's Gas Field Plan Won't Make Palestine a Better Place|Matthew Kalman|May 28, 2013|DAILY BEAST
There are things she could do, sure, to put an end to that bottomless hole she seems to be digging. Why Do We Still Hate Gwyneth Paltrow?|Kevin Fallon|May 2, 2013|DAILY BEAST There was such a bottomless depth in her eyes that it was impossible to guess truly. Then I dreamed of being seized in the powerful grasp of some gigantic demon, and hurried away to the bottomless pit. My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson|George Thompson It seemed like a lusty myth, whose succulent and searching roots were in a bottomless bog, with little chance of sound foundation. Wild Animals at Home|Ernest Thompson Seton Here she lives, sheltered in a glow of comfort and color, while I hang by my finger-ends over a bottomless pit. Wayside Courtships|Hamlin Garland Out of the bottomless profundities the gigantic tail seems spasmodically snatching at the highest heaven. Moby Dick; or The Whale|Herman Melville
British Dictionary definitions for bottomless
adjectivehaving no bottom unlimited; inexhaustible very deep Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to bottomlessunlimited, unfathomable, unending, boundless, infinite, vast, endless, deep, immeasurable |