BOUNDLESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does boundless mean? 

• BOUNDLESS (adjective)
  The adjective BOUNDLESS has 1 sense:

1. seemingly boundless in amount, number, degree, or especially extent

  Familiarity information: BOUNDLESS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOUNDLESS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Seemingly boundless in amount, number, degree, or especially extent

Synonyms:

boundless; limitless; unbounded

Context example:

a limitless supply of money

Similar:

infinite (having no limits or boundaries in time or space or extent or magnitude)

Derivation:

boundlessness (the quality of being infinite; without bound or limit)

 Context examples 

There could not exist in the world two men over whom Mr. Darcy could have such boundless influence.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Margaret, if you had seen the man who thus capitulated for his safety, your surprise would have been boundless.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

To Buck it was boundless delight, this hunting, fishing, and indefinite wandering through strange places.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

When once more alone, I reviewed the information I had got; looked into my heart, examined its thoughts and feelings, and endeavoured to bring back with a strict hand such as had been straying through imagination's boundless and trackless waste, into the safe fold of common sense.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He was laying up trouble for himself, for lack of food and short tempers went together; but with the boundless faith of youth he persisted in repeating the manoeuvre every little while, though it never succeeded in gaining anything for him but discomfiture.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I was required to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Nig, equally friendly, though less demonstrative, was a huge black dog, half bloodhound and half deerhound, with eyes that laughed and a boundless good nature.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I know my Leader: that He is just as well as mighty; and while He has chosen a feeble instrument to perform a great task, He will, from the boundless stores of His providence, supply the inadequacy of the means to the end.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I had a very confused knowledge of kingdoms, wide extents of country, mighty rivers, and boundless seas.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)