Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Wanting depth; shallow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having no depth; shallow.
- adjective Of measureless depth; unfathomable.
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- adjective Having no
depth , or having a depth that is impossible to determine
Etymologies
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Examples
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Appropriately enough, the plate's iconic force -- reminiscent of non-perspectival medieval representations -- grows out of the violent contrast between the "depthless" Gestalt of Los trapped "in dreamless night" and his gaze of catastrophic expectation (reinforced by the toothless, semingly disfigured mouth).
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At another time it might have been a pretty journey, the hills just turning the colors of pumpkin and hay and pomegranate and the skies depthless and clear, but now everywhere one looked most of the trees had been felled for fuel and there was only a hazy, oppressive brightness refracted from the shorn hillsides.
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His eyes are depthless, empty as a bull terrier's.
Bad Attitude Mark Reep 2011
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The flat, featureless and suitably inhuman vacuum for their electronic sounds is classically postmodern and a creepy precursor of cinema's depthless green screen illusionism.
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My only hope is that Weitz, with he screenwriting experience, will be able to repair the undoubtedly depthless script that Melissa handed him.
Twilight Lexicon » Anna Lynn McCord Confirms New Moon Ambitions 2009
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I can see beyond, in my mind's eye, unending spaces, and superhuman silences, and depthless calm, till what I feel is almost fear.
The Raptures of a Tragic Visionary Eric Ormsby 2010
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They stood, motionless, balanced upon their skeletal legs, four pairs of depthless black and soulless eyes, watching us.
The Curse of the Wendigo William James Henry 2010
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Which is to say, that musical flourish has lost its original affect; it has become a depthless quotation in a shifting network of signification.
Archive 2010-01-01 Adam Roberts 2010
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All she could do was stare, reaching toward him with her gaze alone, pulling him to drown in the sorrow of those depthless black pools.
Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010
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They stood, motionless, balanced upon their skeletal legs, four pairs of depthless black and soulless eyes, watching us.
The Curse of the Wendigo William James Henry 2010
yarb commented on the word depthless
Truly contranymic, meaning (i) shallow and (ii) immeasurably deep.
August 11, 2008
vanishedone commented on the word depthless
Google is showing an ad for a dating service. I wonder which definition it based the keyword match on.
August 12, 2008
gangerh commented on the word depthless
Yeah! I got offered a dating service on bovrilize!
August 12, 2008
gangerh commented on the word depthless
I tried it and it put me at around 140,000 years old! It said my ancestry went depthless.
August 12, 2008