horizonless
- adjective
- /həˈraɪzənləs/
:
sin horizonte
- As I gazed out at the horizonless sea, I felt a sense of freedom in the endless space around me.
Examples
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Standing on the mountaintop, the view was breathtaking, with a horizonless sky stretching above us.
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Snowy fields yield to overcast skies: oppressive, horizonless, fluorescent.
Fiction book (1997) -
The two camps were willing enough, by now, to mix freely, and in the sharp horizonless light of the snow.
Fiction book (1997) -
Or simply that God is an abyss, edgeless on all sides, bottomless, horizonless, into which I can perhaps safely fall.
Academic text (1990) -
Strange how the stars canopied all the sky and shone cold and blue and orange and hot: an enormous expanse of sky as if stars had fallen and earth and sky were now a single horizonless starry heaven.
Fiction book (1992) -
I'm shouting "Snake!" in a world of exuberant athleticism, of the no-pain-no-gain catharsis of sweating your way along a sticky, horizonless, black-fly-infested jungle floor just because someone has cut a trail through it.
Fiction book (1997) -
The artist captured the horizonless landscape in her painting, making it appear vast and infinite.
Synonyms
41
4.0
Very large and without any end
27
5.0
Having no limit in size or amount
19
4.9
So large that it seems to have no limit
1
7.2
Having no limit, like a sea that goes on forever
1
8.4
A feeling of no edges or limits, as if everything goes on forever
Antonyms
How Boundless
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Horizonless comes from horizon, a word that meant a 'separating line' where the sky and earth meet, plus the ending -less meaning 'without'. So a horizonless view has no clear line between sky and land and feels endless.