bottomless
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5.0
- adjective
- /ˈbɑːtəm.ləs/
:
sin fondo
- We're staring into what seems like a bottomless pit.
- a bottomless pit
Examples
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It's like a bottomless pit down there.
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And this river, two miles from here, it falls into a bottomless pool.
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I saw a bottomless valley that was full of fog.
Fiction book (1995) -
Lost is a bottomless ravine into which you might fall, and fall.
Fiction book (1998) -
I felt as if I were on a bridge made of rope hanging over a bottomless ravine.
Fiction book (2001) -
Many of us regularly fall into the bleak, bottomless pit of the comparison trap.
Blog text (17) -
But it fits so well because a black hole is literally a bottomless pit in the fabric of space-time.
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The world below you becomes rolling fields and towering cliffs with black bottomless chasms showing little stars of light in their depths.
Fiction book (1999) -
Are we really sitting here in the galley over a bottomless pit in a rolling swell, contemplating mutiny?
Fiction book (1995) -
We peered into the bottomless abyss, unable to see where it ended.
Synonyms
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Far down from the surface or top
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8.6
So deep that you cannot measure or understand it
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6.8
Very deep like a dark hole with no bottom
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7.2
So far down that it seems to have no bottom, like an ocean or someone's eyes
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9.8
Very deep and hard to understand or imagine
Too deep to measure, with a bottom you cannot find
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Etymology
Bottomless comes from bottom and -less, so it literally means 'without a bottom'. That strong image of a pit or cave with no floor helps explain why we use it for something so deep you cannot see or reach the bottom.