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bottomless

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Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
17
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ˈbɒtəm.ləs/(UK)
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/ˈbɒtəm.ləs/(UK) · /ˈbatəmlɪs/(US)

Definition of bottomless

7 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Having no bottom.
    “The vast swamps of Southern Ontario proved a grim nightmare to the construction gangs. Treacherous and seemingly bottomless, the swamps swallowed thousands of tons of timber and debris, yet still afforded no firm surface on which the track could be laid.”
    “And while the railway's finances will forever remain a bottomless black hole, Highways England finances are rapidly becoming a bottomless pothole!”
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adj

  1. (not-comparable)Having no bottom.
    “The vast swamps of Southern Ontario proved a grim nightmare to the construction gangs. Treacherous and seemingly bottomless, the swamps swallowed thousands of tons of timber and debris, yet still afforded no firm surface on which the track could be laid.”
    “And while the railway's finances will forever remain a bottomless black hole, Highways England finances are rapidly becoming a bottomless pothole!”
  2. (not-comparable)Extremely deep.
  3. (not-comparable)Having no bounds; limitless.
    “The restaurant offered bottomless drinks.”
  4. (not-comparable)Of a meal: accompanied by unlimited drinks.
    “I get a message from some school friends about a bottomless brunch they want to go to.”
  5. (not-comparable)Difficult to understand; unfathomable.
  6. (Philippines, not-comparable)refillable (usually for iced tea or other such cold beverages)
  7. (not-comparable)Not wearing clothes below the waist; particularly not wearing clothes that would cover the genitalia.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English botemles, botmeles, equivalent to bottom + -less. Cognate with West Frisian boaiemleas (“bottomless”), Dutch bodemloos (“bottomless”), German Low German boddenloos (“bottomless”), German bodenlos (“bottomless”), Swedish bottenlös (“bottomless”), Icelandic botnlaus (“bottomless”).

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