bottomless
/ˈbɒtəmlɪs
/adjective
1Without a bottom: plant mint in a bottomless bucket sunk into the ground...
- To enjoy these spreaders without worry, plant them in pots or bottomless buckets, then sink the containers almost to their rim in your bed or border.
- The only additional trick I would use to further hasten growth would be to cover the newly transplanted slips with bottomless milk jugs sunk into the soil.
- Even the Romans were fascinated by it, and for a long time it was thought to be bottomless, giving rise to the belief that Gibraltar was linked to Africa by a 15-mile-long subterranean passage.
1.1Very deep: the cold dark sea in whose bottomless depths monsters swam...
- ‘I don't know if I'll go to heaven, but I imagine it to be like the Grand Canyon - huge, bottomless and beautiful,’ he said.
- Tautou, with her huge, bottomless brown eyes, chunky bob haircut and cupid's bow smile, was captivating.
- If you aren't aware of that, emotions can seem to be an immense and bottomless ocean that ‘you’ can drown in and never be safe from.
Synonyms
fathomless, unfathomable, unfathomed, endless, infinite, immeasurable, measureless;
deep, profound, yawning
1.2(Of a supply of money or other resources) inexhaustible: I don’t have a bottomless pit of money...
- That takes a lot of energy, and he seems to have a bottomless supply of it.
- No point in having a bottomless supply of gigabytes if you don't use them.
- I have an almost bottomless stock of plums and will put a handful of them to simmer in a light syrup of cinnamon and nutmeg for an hour before the new agent arrives.
Synonyms
unlimited, limitless, boundless, unbounded, inexhaustible, infinite, incalculable, inestimable, immeasurable, indeterminable, endless, never-ending, everlasting;
vast, immense, huge, enormous, great, extensive