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bottomlessly

bottomlessly adverb: in a bottomless manner.

Adverb

bottomlessly (not comparable)

  1. In a bottomless manner.
    • Who is it, that is so bottomlesly ill, as to love vice, because it is vice? Yet we find, there are some so good, as to love goodness purely for goodness sake.1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves, Divine, Moral and Political, London: A. Seile, 9th impression, 1670, XIX. Of the Evil in Man from himself, and occasions, p....
    • Once Daisy, yielding to the furtive cat-cruelty below her mild placidity, took him with her through the insane horrors of the scenic railway; they plunged bottomlessly from light into roaring blackness, and as his first yell ceased with a slackening of the car, rolled gently into a monstrous...1929, Thomas Wolfe, chapter 5, in Look Homeward, Angel
    Synonyms:
    depthlessly

Synonyms of bottomlessly

Origin of bottomlessly

From bottomless + -ly.

Questions about bottomlessly

What does bottomlessly mean?
Bottomlessly means in a bottomless manner.
What part of speech is bottomlessly?
Bottomlessly is an adverb.

Words near bottomlessly in the dictionary

  1. bottomland
  2. bottomlands
  3. bottomless
  4. bottomless pit
  5. bottomless pits
  6. bottomlessly
  7. bottomlessness
  8. bottomlessnesses
  9. Bottomley
  10. Bottomley projection
  11. Bottomley projections

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