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bottomless

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bot·tom·less  (btm-ls)
adj.
1. Having no bottom.
2. Too deep to be measured: a bottomless glacier lake.
3. Difficult or impossible to understand; unfathomable: one of the bottomless mysteries of life.
4. Having no limitations or bounds; limitless: a bottomless supply of money.
5.
a. Nude, especially unclothed below the waist: bottomless dancers.
b. Featuring such dancers as entertainment: bottomless bars.
bottom·less·ly adv.
bottomless
Adjective
1. unlimited; inexhaustible: bottomless resources
2. very deep: bottomless valleys
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Adj.1.bottomless - extremely deep; "a bottomless pit"; "a bottomless lake"
deep - having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center; sometimes used in combination; "a deep well"; "a deep dive"; "deep water"; "a deep casserole"; "a deep gash"; "deep massage"; "deep pressure receptors in muscles"; "deep shelves"; "a deep closet"; "surrounded by a deep yard"; "hit the ball to deep center field"; "in deep space"; "waist-deep"
2.bottomless - having no bottom; "bottomless pajamas consisting simply of a long top opening down the front"
bottomed - having a bottom of a specified character
3.bottomless - having no apparent limits or bounds; "a bottomless supply of money"; "bottomless pockets"
unlimited, limitless - having no limits in range or scope; "to start with a theory of unlimited freedom is to end up with unlimited despotism"- Philip Rahv; "the limitless reaches of outer space"
4.bottomless - unclothed especially below the waist or featuring such nudeness; "bottomless dancers"; "a bottomless bar"
unclothed - not wearing clothing
bottomless
adjective 1. unlimited, endless, infinite, limitless, boundless, inexhaustible, immeasurable, unbounded, illimitable
adjective 2. deep, profound, yawning, boundless, unfathomable, immeasurable, fathomless, abyssal
Translations
bottomless [ˈbɔtəmlɪs] adj → sin fondo, insondable
bottomless [ˈbɔtəmlɪs] adj → sans fond, insondable
bottomless [ˈbɔtəmlɪs] adj (fig) → unerschöpflich
bottomless [ˈbɔtəmlɪs] adj → senza fondo


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"It's very apt to set him off with the same energy in a much worse direction," answered Fisher; "a pretty endless sort of direction, a bottomless pit as deep as the bottomless well.
The Man Who Knew Too Much by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context
Merchant ships are but extension bridges; armed ones but floating forts; even pirates and privateers, though following the sea as highwaymen the road, they but plunder other ships, other fragments of the land like themselves, without seeking to draw their living from the bottomless deep itself.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
If there's one devil that I should like to see in the bottomless pit more than another, it's the drink devil.
Black Beauty by Sewell, Anna View in context
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