measureless
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7.5
- adjective
- /ˈmɛʒərləs/
- Literature
- Walt Whitman, walking along Long Island's North Shore at Pomanic, listens to a migratory seabird pouring forth meanings in measureless measures.
Examples
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A large "forest commons" existed (Cathey 1956), and one European traveler wrote of a "measureless forest" (Schoepf 1783).
Academic text (1994) -
For just the length of one measureless step.
Fiction book (1992) -
"Through caverns measureless to man" -
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"Where Alph, the sacred river, ran through caverns measureless to man"
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I sailed through canyons of ice whose walls rise up and up into a measureless mist.
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The universe is filled with measureless wonders waiting to be discovered.
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As she gazed at the horizon, she felt a measureless sense of freedom and possibility.
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The measureless beauty of the landscape took his breath away.
Synonyms
754
2.1
Very large in size, amount, or effect
650
2.1
Very large in size or amount
184
4.2
Without limits or end
167
1.5
Having no end and no rules to stop it
132
3.7
Very large in size, amount, or degree
39
4.0
Very large and without any end
37
4.8
A very large amount that cannot be counted or measured
27
5.6
Very large in amount or size
26
5.0
Having no limit in size or amount
17
4.9
So large that it seems to have no limit
14
5.5
So large or great you cannot say how big
12
8.1
Too great to measure or count
10
4.6
To a very great degree
5
6.3
Not limited in amount or size
3
8.6
So great that you cannot measure its value
2
8.6
So deep that you cannot measure or understand it
1
7.8
Impossible to measure or show with a number
1
6.4
Something that has no clear limit
1
6.2
Too large or without clear limits to say how big it is
1
9.9
An amount or space that has no end and cannot be measured
1
7.2
You cannot give a number or amount for it
Too great to measure
Antonyms
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Measureless comes from the common word measure ('to find size') and the ending -less ('without'), so it literally means 'without measure' and describes something so large or so many that it cannot be measured.