bottomless
/ˈbɒtəm.ləs/US/ˈbatəmlɪs/
bottomless adjective: having no bottom.
Adjective
bottomless (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.1954 February, Trevor Holloway, “Canada's Transcontinental Routes”, in Railway Magazine, page 128
- And while the railway's finances will forever remain a bottomless black hole, Highways England finances are rapidly becoming a bottomless pothole!2021 May 5, “Open Access: Saving our structures”, in RAIL, number 930, page 40
- Extremely deep.
- Having no bounds; limitless.
- The restaurant offered bottomless drinks.
- Synonyms:
- boundless
- Of a meal: accompanied by unlimited drinks.
- I get a message from some school friends about a bottomless brunch they want to go to.2021, Rebecca Reid, Rude: Stop Being Nice and Start Being Bold, page 199
- Difficult to understand; unfathomable.
- refillable (usually for iced tea or other such cold beverages)
- Not wearing clothes below the waist; particularly not wearing clothes that would cover the genitalia.
bottomless meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Telugu
bottomless in Hindi
- having no bottom
- अथाह athāh
bottomless in Tamil
- அடிப்பகுதியில்லாத, அடித்தளமற்ற, ஆழம்காணமுடியாத
bottomless in Urdu
- bottomless, endless
- اتھاہ athāh
bottomless in Telugu
- bottomless
- అబుధ్నము abudhnamu
More languagesFewer languages
- bottomless in Malayalam
- അടികാണാത്ത, ആഴം അളക്കാനാവാത്ത, അത്യഗാധമായ, ആധാരരഹിതമായ
- bottomless in Kannada
- ಬಹಳ ಆಳವಾದ, ತಳಕಾಣದ, ಅಗಾಧ, ತಳವಿಲ್ಲದ
- bottomless in Gujarati
- અથાહ athāh
- bottomless in Sanskrit
- अबुध्न abudhna
- bottomless in Vietnamese
- truồng
Examples of bottomless in a sentence
- In a voice exaggeratively loud and cheerful, he broke the bottomless silence and made conversation.
- She had always hated it, and she hated how easy it had become; the bottomless hole of egg mode.
- Our biocenometer was a bottomless cube of 1 m side, whose sides and top were covered with a fine netting mesh.
Synonyms of bottomless
Origin of bottomless
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”).
Words formed from bottomless
Phrases with bottomless
Questions about bottomless
- What does bottomless mean?
- Bottomless means having no bottom.
- What is bottomless in Hindi?
- Bottomless in Hindi is अथाह (athāh). See Bottomless meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is bottomless?
- Bottomless is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce bottomless?
- Bottomless is pronounced /ˈbɒtəm.ləs/ (UK).
Words near bottomless in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: bottomless (page history and authors); bottomless (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); اتھاہ (Urdu) (page history and authors); అబుధ్నము (Telugu) (page history and authors); bottomless (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); bottomless (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); અથાહ (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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