Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Impossible to limit or circumscribe; limitless.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Incapable of being limited or bounded; having no determinate limits.
- Synonyms Boundless, limitless, unlimited, unbounded, immeasurable, infinite, immense, vast.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Incapable of being limited or bounded; immeasurable; limitless; boundless.
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- adjective
Impervious tolimitation , withoutlimit .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective without limits in extent or size or quantity
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Examples
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Perhaps the idea of illimitable extent is better conveyed by the lithographic sketch, No. 8, in which the level, not being interrupted by the intersection of a mountain ridge, as in the former, vanishes in distance.
Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester
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It commands a view of mingled woodland and rolling plain, diversified by river and lake, extending to a horizon so faint and far away as to suggest the idea of illimitable space.
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Hell, I never use the words "illimitable," or "gibbering," but I bet both are to be found many times in
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Exterminable seems to be used here in the sense of 'illimitable' (N. E.
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 3 Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807
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Exterminable seems to be used here in the sense of 'illimitable' (N. E.
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807
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I'm not strong on religion like Chauncey Delarouse there, but I have some primitive ideas; and my concept of hell is an illimitable coconut plantation, stocked with cases of square-face and populated by ship-wrecked mariners.
THE PRINCESS 2010
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After some (perhaps overdue) self-reflection, I am reminded of something President Thomas Jefferson said to Thomas Cooper on the occasion of the founding of the University of Virginia: This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind.
Juan Williams Fired For All-Too-Common Offense In Media: Defaming Muslims The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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The Mediterranean and the Euxine were illimitable stretches of ocean waste over which years could be spent in endless wandering.
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There ought to be a CAPACITY to provide for future contingencies as they may happen; and as these are illimitable in their nature, it is impossible safely to limit that capacity.
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Edmund Burke, in his treatise A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1756), described the sublime as an evocation of anxiety in the face of nature, an exhilarating but fraught recognition of its illimitable power over humankind.
Ballardian » Edward Burtynsky: Oil – A Ballardian Interpretation 2010
bilby commented on the word illimitable
“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.�?
- Albert Einstein.
August 23, 2008