Definitions
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 tounderstand ;unfathomable . - adjective Not
wearing clothes below thewaist .
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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Examples
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This is where what I called the bottomless or fathomless self, the last version of the self, makes its appearance.
THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003
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This is where what I called the bottomless or fathomless self, the last version of the self, makes its appearance.
THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003
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Behind him she saw what she called a bottomless hole filled with light.
The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980
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On the plus side, though, that stuff about it being bottomless is also bunk.
Boing Boing 2009
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Write what you want bottomless from the bottom of the mind
Crazy Dumbsaints Unite! Sharon Bakar 2005
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Write what you want bottomless from the bottom of the mind
Archive 2005-03-01 Sharon Bakar 2005
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Whether they are called bottomless, endless or never-ending, all-you-can-eat promotions are flooding casual-dining outlets as restaurant chains attempt to lure customers to their tables while trying to avoid the pitfalls of previous similar campaigns.
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Other closets, frankly, can only be classified as bottomless pits.
“I Don’t Have a Thing to Wear” Judie Taggart 2003
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Other closets, frankly, can only be classified as bottomless pits.
“I Don’t Have a Thing to Wear” Judie Taggart 2003
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Do you have what some might call a "bottomless" stomach?
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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