BOTTOMLESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bottomless mean? 

• BOTTOMLESS (adjective)
  The adjective BOTTOMLESS has 4 senses:

1. extremely deep

2. having no bottom

3. having no apparent limits or bounds

4. unclothed especially below the waist or featuring such nudeness

  Familiarity information: BOTTOMLESS used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOTTOMLESS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extremely deep

Context example:

a bottomless lake

Similar:

deep (having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center; sometimes used in combination)

Derivation:

bottomlessness (the property of being very deep; without limit)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having no bottom

Context example:

bottomless pajamas consisting simply of a long top opening down the front

Antonym:

bottomed (having a bottom of a specified character)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Having no apparent limits or bounds

Context example:

bottomless pockets

Similar:

limitless; unlimited (having no limits in range or scope)

Derivation:

bottomlessness (the property of being very deep; without limit)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Unclothed especially below the waist or featuring such nudeness

Context example:

a bottomless bar

Similar:

unclothed (not wearing clothing)

 Context examples 

'This life,' said I at last, 'is hell: this is the air—those are the sounds of the bottomless pit! I have a right to deliver myself from it if I can. The sufferings of this mortal state will leave me with the heavy flesh that now cumbers my soul. Of the fanatic's burning eternity I have no fear: there is not a future state worse than this present one—let me break away, and go home to God!'

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I told him, “that in the kingdom of Tribnia, by the natives called Langdon, where I had sojourned some time in my travels, the bulk of the people consist in a manner wholly of discoverers, witnesses, informers, accusers, prosecutors, evidences, swearers, together with their several subservient and subaltern instruments, all under the colours, the conduct, and the pay of ministers of state, and their deputies. The plots, in that kingdom, are usually the workmanship of those persons who desire to raise their own characters of profound politicians; to restore new vigour to a crazy administration; to stifle or divert general discontents; to fill their coffers with forfeitures; and raise, or sink the opinion of public credit, as either shall best answer their private advantage. It is first agreed and settled among them, what suspected persons shall be accused of a plot; then, effectual care is taken to secure all their letters and papers, and put the owners in chains. These papers are delivered to a set of artists, very dexterous in finding out the mysterious meanings of words, syllables, and letters: for instance, they can discover a close stool, to signify a privy council; a flock of geese, a senate; a lame dog, an invader; the plague, a standing army; a buzzard, a prime minister; the gout, a high priest; a gibbet, a secretary of state; a chamber pot, a committee of grandees; a sieve, a court lady; a broom, a revolution; a mouse-trap, an employment; a bottomless pit, a treasury; a sink, a court; a cap and bells, a favourite; a broken reed, a court of justice; an empty tun, a general; a running sore, the administration.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)