shoreless
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7.2
- adjective
- /ˈʃɔːrləs/
- Literature
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- The horizon seemed to stretch endlessly across the shoreless sea.
- shoreless sea
Examples
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We are adrift in an ocean of stars, a shoreless ocean of unknowable depths, a vastness so great it swallows all mind and all knowledge.
Blog text (28) -
Above the holostage, a wave of ocean rolled, a giant ravening curl of water such as was never seen on shoreless Shora.
Fiction book (1998) -
Two bodies floating in the empty, shoreless sea.
Fiction book (2002) -
Our pilgrimage to no country and to no end In that shoreless ocean.
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Vishnu sleeps, floating on the shoreless cosmic ocean... and we are the stuff of his dreaming.
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Somewhere there's a light That meets a shoreless tide But I guess I'm resigned To never seeing mine
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Land of any sort was a mystery to Verid, who dwelt from birth in a city floating on a shoreless sea.
Fiction book (1998) -
Deep in the void sailed the shoreless blue ocean world, which the Sharer natives called Shora.
Fiction book (1998) -
But as in landlessness alone resides highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God, so better is it to perish in that howling infinite than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety!
Blog text (27) -
As we sailed further, the shoreless waters surrounded us, making us feel truly isolated.
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
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6.3
Not limited in amount or size
A view with no clear line where the land and sky meet
Antonyms
How Boundless
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word shoreless comes from shore ('land by the sea') and the ending -less ('without'), so it creates the image of water with no land to stop it. That's why shoreless means 'having no shore' or 'endless'.