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LIMITLESS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Seemingly boundless in amount, number, degree, or especially extent
Example:
a limitless supply of money
Synonyms:
boundless; limitless; unbounded
Classified under:
Similar:
infinite (having no limits or boundaries in time or space or extent or magnitude)
Derivation:
limitlessness (the quality of being infinite; without bound or limit)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having no limits in range or scope
Example:
the limitless reaches of outer space
Synonyms:
limitless; unlimited
Classified under:
Similar:
bottomless (having no apparent limits or bounds)
oceanic (resembling the ocean in apparent limitlessness in extent or degree)
untrammeled; untrammelled (not confined or limited)
Derivation:
limitlessness (the quality of being infinite; without bound or limit)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Without limits in extent or size or quantity
Example:
The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.
Synonyms:
illimitable; limitless; measureless; unmeasured
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
immeasurable; immensurable; unmeasurable (impossible to measure)
Derivation:
limitlessness (the quality of being infinite; without bound or limit)