bottomless
Meaning
- (not-comparable) Having no bottom.
- (not-comparable) Extremely deep.
- (not-comparable) Having no bounds; limitless.
- (not-comparable) Of a meal: accompanied by unlimited drinks.
- (not-comparable) Difficult to understand; unfathomable.
- (Philippines, not-comparable) refillable (usually for iced tea or other such cold beverages)
- (not-comparable) Not wearing clothes below the waist; particularly not wearing clothes that would cover the genitalia.
Synonyms
very deep
great depth
endlessly deep
Translations
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈbɒtəm.ləs/
Etymology
In summary
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”).
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