LIMITLESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does limitless mean? 

• LIMITLESS (adjective)
  The adjective LIMITLESS has 3 senses:

1. without limits in extent or size or quantity

2. having no limits in range or scope

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

  Familiarity information: LIMITLESS used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIMITLESS (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)

Derivation:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having no limits in range or scope

Synonyms:

limitless; unlimited

Context example:

the limitless reaches of outer space

Similar:

bottomless (having no apparent limits or bounds)

oceanic (resembling the ocean in apparent limitlessness in extent or degree)

untrammeled; untrammelled (not confined or limited)

Derivation:

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

Sense 3

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:

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

 Context examples 

The challenge is that the possibilities are almost limitless in this case.

(Experiments recreate aromatic flavors of Titan, NASA)

There is only so much water, so much earth, so much air; but the life that is demanding to be born is limitless.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The strength of the parents seemed to be limitless, for one of them, having some difficulty in reaching a bunch of foliage which grew upon a considerable-sized tree, put his fore-legs round the trunk and tore it down as if it had been a sapling.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sometimes an eclipse will eclipse out someone in your environment, so in this case, you may see a dear friend move away, perhaps because he or she is getting married, among a nearly limitless number of reasons.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

So, on this great journey into the East, straight meat was the bill of fare, ammunition and tools principally made up the load on the sled, and the time-card was drawn upon the limitless future.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)