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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having no bottom.
  • adjective Too deep to be measured.
  • adjective Difficult or impossible to understand; unfathomable.
  • adjective Having no limitations or bounds; limitless.
  • adjective Nude, especially unclothed below the waist.
  • adjective Featuring such dancers as entertainment.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Without a bottom. Hence— Groundless; unsubstantial; false: as, “bottomless speculations,”
  • Fathomless; unfathomable; inexhaustible: as, a bottomless abyss or ocean.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Without a bottom; hence, fathomless; baseless.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having no bottom.
  • adjective Extremely deep.
  • adjective Having no bounds; limitless.
  • adjective Difficult to understand; unfathomable.
  • adjective Not wearing clothes below the waist.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective extremely deep
  • adjective having no apparent limits or bounds
  • adjective unclothed especially below the waist or featuring such nudeness
  • adjective having no bottom

Etymologies

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bottom +‎ -less

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