ILLIMITABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does illimitable mean? 

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

1. without limits in extent or size or quantity

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ILLIMITABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without limits in extent or size or quantity

Synonyms:

illimitable; limitless; measureless; unmeasured

Context example:

The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Similar:

immeasurable; immensurable; unmeasurable (impossible to measure)

 Context examples 

He had caught a glimpse of the apparently illimitable vistas of knowledge.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Coming from no man knew where in the illimitable Pacific, it was travelling north on its annual migration to the rookeries of Bering Sea.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But the mingled reality and mystery of the whole show, the influence upon me of the poetry, the lights, the music, the company, the smooth stupendous changes of glittering and brilliant scenery, were so dazzling, and opened up such illimitable regions of delight, that when I came out into the rainy street, at twelve o'clock at night, I felt as if I had come from the clouds, where I had been leading a romantic life for ages, to a bawling, splashing, link-lighted, umbrella-struggling, hackney-coach-jostling, patten-clinking, muddy, miserable world.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)