bottomlessadj.

Brit.

/ˈbɒtəmləs/, U.S.

/ˈbɑdəmləs/

Forms: see bottom n. and -less suffix.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: bottom n., -less suffix.

Etymology: < bottom n. + -less suffix. Compare Middle Dutch bodemloes (Dutch bodemloos), Middle High German bodemlōs, bodenlōs (German bodenlos).With use in sense 5 compare topless adj. 3.

1. That has no bottom. Sometimes in figurative contexts.With bottomless gorge, bottomless gulf (see quots. 1641, 1770, and 1829), cf. bottomless pit n. at Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > vertical extent > extension downwards or depth > [adjective] > very

groundlessc888

bottomlessc1400

profound?a1425

neal1574

soundlessc1595

insoundable1602

gulfy1607

unbottomed1615

depthless1619

unsoundable1629

chin-deep1634

fathomless1638

abysming1644

unfounded1648

abysmal1656

plumbless1665

unfathomablea1676

chasmy1793

fathom-deep1835

plummetlessc1861

chasmal1871

abyssal1903

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 1022 For hit [sc. the Dead Sea] is brod and boþemlez, and bitter as þe galle.

a1438 Bk. Margery Kempe (1940) i. 69 (MED) Sum wolde sche had ben in þe se in bottumles boyt.

c1500 (?a1437) Kingis Quair (1939) lxx (MED) As Tantalus I travaile..Water to draw with buket botemles.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 418 Let his necke be yoked in an olde bottomelesse paile.

1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. Concl. 63 Unlesse her bottomlesse gorge may be satisfi'd with the blood of the Kings daughter the Church.

1710 S. Palmer Moral Ess. Prov. 172 Jupiter puts the discourses and promises of lovers into a bottomless bag.

1770 J. Andrews Acct. Char. & Manners French I. xiii. 123 Royal Power, like a bottomless Gulph, absorbs all the Strength and Vigour of the Realm.

1829 I. Taylor Nat. Hist. Enthusiasm iv. 86 An almost sudden plunge from the pinnacle of high belief, into the bottomless gulf of universal scepticism.

1860 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 16 June 232/2 How knowingly (with a sheaf and a bottomless chair at our back) we should lounge on bridges.

1915 J. Feith Sport in Netherlands 27 ‘Korfbal’, a game not known in England... The ball, which is as big as that used for football, is thrown.., and the place of the goal is taken by a bottomless basket fastened to a pole.

2008 Western Mail (Nexis) 31 May 30 The rings are bottomless plastic containers nine inches in diameter and nine inches deep set out at 18in intervals.

†2. figurative. Without a firm foundation, baseless. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [adjective]

flittingc1374

aerya1398

bottomlessa1413

hollowa1529

flittering1549

wanzing1571

aerial1581

slight1585

flit1590

windy1593

filmy1594

tenuous1597

unsubstantial1597

yeasty1598

thingless1599

airy1600

spare1602

spongy1603

insubstantial1607

baselessa1616

thina1616

insolid1618

insubstantiate1621

tenuious1634

bubble1635

thin-spun1638

subventaneous1646

unsubstanceda1658

whipped1673

aericala1678

huffy1678

blatherya1693

naughty1696

substanceless1784

vapoury1818

aeriform1827

airified1837

blow-away1858

non-substantial1858

unbased1860

evasive1881

stuffless1896

fabricless1905

lighter-than-air1909

a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) v. l. 1431 But yn here lettre made she swych festes That wonder was and swereth she loueth hym best Of which he fond but botmeles [c1430 Cambr. Gg.4.27 bottemeles, ?a1450 St. John's Cambr. L. 1 butmeles, c1460 Harl. 1239 bottomles] byhestes.

1563 J. Davidson Answer to Tractiue Kennedy in D. Laing Misc. Wodrow Soc. (1844) I. 241 The rest of his lessone..is on ane boddomles ground.

1642 Prince Rupert Declar. 6 Strange, false and bottomlesse untruths.

1866 A. Crump Pract. Treat. Banking viii. 175 Speculators..are often encouraged in their bottomless enterprises by obtaining credits with certain companies.

3. figurative. Inexhaustible, endless; unfathomable.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [adjective] > inexhaustible

bottomlessa1450

unconsumable1571

inexhaustiblea1631

inexhaurible1658

exhaustless1712

inexhaustive1728

inexhaustless1739

unbottomed1766

drainless1817

a1450 in J. Kail 26 Polit. Poems (1904) 67 (MED) I likne þe wombe..To botemeles purs, þat moche doþ take.

1526 W. Tyndale Doctr. Treat. (1848) 400 The judgments of God are bottomless.

1542 H. Brinkelow Lamentacion sig. Aviii Oh ye dispysers of the bothomeles mercye of God.

1641 Ld. Digby Speeches High Court Parl. 5 Besides the bottomlesse perjury of an &c.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 48 To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire.

1743 N. Tindal tr. P. Rapin de Thoyras Hist. Eng. (ed. 3) II. xvii. 129 Bottomless graces and immeasurable benefits.

1826 W. Scott Woodstock I. iii. 97 He must be bottomless if I cannot sound him before the night's out.

1910 H. H. Richardson Getting of Wisdom x. 99 She had a bottomless supply of pocket-money: if a subscription were to be raised, she gave ten shillings where others gave one.

2006 Wired Dec. 226/1 Altogether, this stuff constitutes a bottomless reservoir of short-form video content for others to siphon off if they choose.

4. Originally and chiefly U.S. In a cafe, restaurant, etc.: designating a drink (or occasionally a food item) with which unlimited refills are included in the price.

ΚΠ

1934 Chicago Tribune 16 Nov. 5/8 (advt.) We've a 10 cent breakfast for you 'til 11:00 in the morning: a gorgeous sugar roll; a bottomless cup of coffee.

1967 Nevada State Jrnl. 5 May 9 (advt.) Bottomless glass of champagne for the ladies; all you can drink for only 50¢.

2003 N.Y. Times 4 June d2/2 Bottomless salad bowls and breadstick baskets, free refills on drinks, not to mention large portions, play into the idea that these restaurants are a bargain.

a. Of clothing (esp. trousers): cut to expose the buttocks; having a hole in the region of the buttocks.

ΚΠ

1951 Cumberland (Maryland) Evening Times 11 Jan. 1/4 Pat Hall—actress, model and designer—dreamed up a model which is strapless, almost topless and almost bottomless.

1987 Orange County (Calif.) Reg. (Nexis) 5 July 4 I noted one young woman of near-perfect tan and figure lying face-down on a beach blanket with a bathing-suit bottom that could fairly be described as bottomless.

1998 Sun (Baltimore) (Nexis) 10 Sept. 1 e Marilyn Manson decided to let it all hang out in a pair of bottomless leather pants... No one at MTV had any idea beforehand that Manson was planning to expose his pasty posterior.

b. Of a person: naked or nearly naked below the waist. Cf. topless adj. 3b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > nakedness or state of being unclothed > [adjective] > having specific part of body uncovered > other

bare-necked1603

bare-backed1834

bare-knuckled1924

bottomless1964

1964 Racine (Wisconsin) Jrnl.-Times 3 July 5 b/2 (caption) Sheila goes topless and Sharon bottomless.

1970 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 7 May 26 Most of the clubs present topless waitresses, bottomless dancers and shows involving total nudity.

1998 Daily News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 15 May 128 Everyone but George sees his new girlfriend topless. Worse, she spots him bottomless, fresh from a dip in the pool and suffering from male ‘shrinkage’.

2002 L. Fraser-Gooda in L. Purcell Black Chicks Talking (following p. 238) I wanted to show the raw beauty of us black women and that we should be proud of our bodies, so I decided to go bottomless.

c. Having, involving, or portraying people who are naked below the waist; esp. (of a bar or club) employing women naked below the waist as waitresses or dancers.

ΚΠ

1965 Times (San Mateo, Calif.) 5 May 6/2 ‘We haven't stopped the bottomless shows,’ added Mrs. Ruth Bonell, mayor of Pico Rivera.

1972 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 6 Dec. 1/1 The practical effect of the ruling,..may be to force many topless, bottomless and sexually oriented bars,..to go out of business.

1983 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 10 Apr. x. 15 Beaches are topless and sometimes bottomless.

1992 Evening Standard 28 Sept. 40/1 Topless and bottomless dancing and women's hot-oil wrestling have given Bourbon Street, the Quarter's heart, a slightly seedy image.

2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 20 Apr. (Arts & Leisure section) 16/1 Their film features a ‘bottomless party’ (where guests disrobe from the waist down).

Compounds

bottomless pit n. [after Hellenistic Greek ἄβυσσος abyss n.] a pit whose bottom cannot be seen or found; an abyss, hell; (in extended use) something which can never be filled or satisfied, or which is inexhaustible or unfathomable.Originally and frequently as a biblical allusion: see e.g. quot. 1526.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > hell > [noun] > as pit or abyss

hell pitOE

pitOE

abysmc1350

hell-holec1400

abyssc1460

bisme1483

pota1500

barathrum?1510

bottomless pit1526

limbo-lake1558

1526 Bible (Tyndale) Rev. ix. 1 And the fyfte angell blewe, and I sawe a starre fall from heven vnto the erth. And to him was geven the kaye of the bottomlesse pytt.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job xxxvi. 16 So shall he kepe the..from the bottomlesse pytte that is beneth.

1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. iv. f. 29 She not long constant in that minde, afterwadrs [sic] will attend vnto the first suter,..and him in the ende will suffre to fall headlong into the bottomlesse pit of dispaire.

1611 Bible (King James) Rev. ix. 1 And the fift angel sounded, and I saw a starre fall from heauen unto the earth: and to him was giuen the key of the bottomlesse pit.

1648 Looking-glasse for Well-affected in London 3 The Prelates and the Prelaticall Clergy, those Locusts of the bottomless pit, who have cropped our harvest of a glorious reformation, for many years, even in the Blade.

a1678 A. Woodhead Motives Holy Living (1688) i. iii. 8 Weigh well the terrible description of these punishments... The..Bottomless Pit; A Fire- and Brimstone-Lake.

1712 J. Arbuthnot (title) Law is a Bottomless Pit. Exemplify'd in the Case of the Lord Strutt.

1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian vii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 161 To rid the land of the swarm of Arminian caterpillars, Socinian pismires, and deistical Miss Katies, that have ascended out of the bottomless pit.

1865 K. Graves Biogr. Satan 42 St. John speaks of the Dragon falling (from his angelship) and being cast into the bottomless pit.

1916 A. Bullard Diplomacy of Great War 264 If the French are relieved of the pressing fear of Germany, they will stop sinking their money in the bottomless pit of the Tsar's misgovernment.

1986 B. Dijkstra Idols of Perversity viii. 250 Disquisitions upon the bottomless pit of woman's sexual nature.

2000 Building Design 11 Feb. 12/3 The Treasury and Gordon Brown hold the purse strings tightly and ‘prudently’ (except where the bottomless pit of the Dome or the PFI is concerned).

Derivatives

ˈbottomlessly adv. unfathomably; endlessly, inexhaustibly.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [adverb] > inexhaustibly

bottomlessly1594

inexhaustibly1694

exhaustlessly1766

inexhaustively1882

1594 tr. A. Arnauld Arrainm. Whole Soc. Iesuits in France f. 5 What force the scrupules of conscience were of in the hearts of men, and how deeply and bottomlesly they pearce into mens breasts.

1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xix. 60 Who is it, that is so bottomlesly ill, as to loue vice, because it is vice?

1888 Cent. Mag. June 278/2 I was madly, hopelessly, intensely, bottomlessly in love with a young lady of twenty-six.

1996 A. Theroux Secondary Colors 1 But, surely, it is nothing if not unshy and bottomlessly flippant and even pagan.

ˈbottomlessness n. the state or quality of being bottomless.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > changeableness > [noun]

unstablenessc1340

varyingc1380

uncertaintyc1384

brotelnessc1386

were1390

instabilityc1422

bricklenessa1425

changeability?a1425

changeableness1447

vertibility1447

mutability?a1475

variableness?a1475

inconstance1509

mutationa1542

fickleness1548

variety1548

unconstancy1563

mobility1567

unstability1572

vicissitude1576

variousness1607

inconstancy1613

slipperinessa1618

alterableness1633

versatilousness1640

bottomlessness1642

lability1651

brittlety1652

versatileness1654

fluctuancy1659

fugitivenessa1661

alterability1661

permutability1662

unfixedness1668

mutablenessa1677

flittingnessa1680

frailness1687

flittiness1692

versability1721

plasticity1727

variability1771

unestablishment1776

fluctuabilitya1786

changefulness1791

unsettledness1799

versatility1802

harlequinism1808

fluidity1824

fitfulness1825

sensitiveness1825

insubstantiality1848

contingency1858

rootlessness1859

shiftingness1866

ficklety1888

variancy1888

impredicability1906

proteanism1909

1642 D. Rogers Naaman 180 That wearisomenesse of Selfe, never settled, that bottomelessenesse, never grounded.

1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 306 Men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.

2000 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 9 Nov. c10 During Nothing Good, you feel again the fragility and bottomlessness of his talent.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	bottomless
释义	bottomlessadj. Brit. /ˈbɒtəmləs/, U.S. /ˈbɑdəmləs/ Forms: see bottom n. and -less suffix. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: bottom n., -less suffix. Etymology: < bottom n. + -less suffix. Compare Middle Dutch bodemloes (Dutch bodemloos), Middle High German bodemlōs, bodenlōs (German bodenlos).With use in sense 5 compare topless adj. 3. 1. That has no bottom. Sometimes in figurative contexts.With bottomless gorge, bottomless gulf (see quots. 1641, 1770, and 1829), cf. bottomless pit n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > vertical extent > extension downwards or depth > [adjective] > very groundlessc888 bottomlessc1400 profound?a1425 neal1574 soundlessc1595 insoundable1602 gulfy1607 unbottomed1615 depthless1619 unsoundable1629 chin-deep1634 fathomless1638 abysming1644 unfounded1648 abysmal1656 plumbless1665 unfathomablea1676 chasmy1793 fathom-deep1835 plummetlessc1861 chasmal1871 abyssal1903 c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 1022 For hit [sc. the Dead Sea] is brod and boþemlez, and bitter as þe galle. a1438 Bk. Margery Kempe (1940) i. 69 (MED) Sum wolde sche had ben in þe se in bottumles boyt. c1500 (?a1437) Kingis Quair (1939) lxx (MED) As Tantalus I travaile..Water to draw with buket botemles. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 418 Let his necke be yoked in an olde bottomelesse paile. 1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. Concl. 63 Unlesse her bottomlesse gorge may be satisfi'd with the blood of the Kings daughter the Church. 1710 S. Palmer Moral Ess. Prov. 172 Jupiter puts the discourses and promises of lovers into a bottomless bag. 1770 J. Andrews Acct. Char. & Manners French I. xiii. 123 Royal Power, like a bottomless Gulph, absorbs all the Strength and Vigour of the Realm. 1829 I. Taylor Nat. Hist. Enthusiasm iv. 86 An almost sudden plunge from the pinnacle of high belief, into the bottomless gulf of universal scepticism. 1860 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 16 June 232/2 How knowingly (with a sheaf and a bottomless chair at our back) we should lounge on bridges. 1915 J. Feith Sport in Netherlands 27 ‘Korfbal’, a game not known in England... The ball, which is as big as that used for football, is thrown.., and the place of the goal is taken by a bottomless basket fastened to a pole. 2008 Western Mail (Nexis) 31 May 30 The rings are bottomless plastic containers nine inches in diameter and nine inches deep set out at 18in intervals. †2. figurative. Without a firm foundation, baseless. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [adjective] flittingc1374 aerya1398 bottomlessa1413 hollowa1529 flittering1549 wanzing1571 aerial1581 slight1585 flit1590 windy1593 filmy1594 tenuous1597 unsubstantial1597 yeasty1598 thingless1599 airy1600 spare1602 spongy1603 insubstantial1607 baselessa1616 thina1616 insolid1618 insubstantiate1621 tenuious1634 bubble1635 thin-spun1638 subventaneous1646 unsubstanceda1658 whipped1673 aericala1678 huffy1678 blatherya1693 naughty1696 substanceless1784 vapoury1818 aeriform1827 airified1837 blow-away1858 non-substantial1858 unbased1860 evasive1881 stuffless1896 fabricless1905 lighter-than-air1909 a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) v. l. 1431 But yn here lettre made she swych festes That wonder was and swereth she loueth hym best Of which he fond but botmeles [c1430 Cambr. Gg.4.27 bottemeles, ?a1450 St. John's Cambr. L. 1 butmeles, c1460 Harl. 1239 bottomles] byhestes. 1563 J. Davidson Answer to Tractiue Kennedy in D. Laing Misc. Wodrow Soc. (1844) I. 241 The rest of his lessone..is on ane boddomles ground. 1642 Prince Rupert Declar. 6 Strange, false and bottomlesse untruths. 1866 A. Crump Pract. Treat. Banking viii. 175 Speculators..are often encouraged in their bottomless enterprises by obtaining credits with certain companies. 3. figurative. Inexhaustible, endless; unfathomable. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [adjective] > inexhaustible bottomlessa1450 unconsumable1571 inexhaustiblea1631 inexhaurible1658 exhaustless1712 inexhaustive1728 inexhaustless1739 unbottomed1766 drainless1817 a1450 in J. Kail 26 Polit. Poems (1904) 67 (MED) I likne þe wombe..To botemeles purs, þat moche doþ take. 1526 W. Tyndale Doctr. Treat. (1848) 400 The judgments of God are bottomless. 1542 H. Brinkelow Lamentacion sig. Aviii Oh ye dispysers of the bothomeles mercye of God. 1641 Ld. Digby Speeches High Court Parl. 5 Besides the bottomlesse perjury of an &c. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 48 To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire. View more context for this quotation 1743 N. Tindal tr. P. Rapin de Thoyras Hist. Eng. (ed. 3) II. xvii. 129 Bottomless graces and immeasurable benefits. 1826 W. Scott Woodstock I. iii. 97 He must be bottomless if I cannot sound him before the night's out. 1910 H. H. Richardson Getting of Wisdom x. 99 She had a bottomless supply of pocket-money: if a subscription were to be raised, she gave ten shillings where others gave one. 2006 Wired Dec. 226/1 Altogether, this stuff constitutes a bottomless reservoir of short-form video content for others to siphon off if they choose. 4. Originally and chiefly U.S. In a cafe, restaurant, etc.: designating a drink (or occasionally a food item) with which unlimited refills are included in the price. ΚΠ 1934 Chicago Tribune 16 Nov. 5/8 (advt.) We've a 10 cent breakfast for you 'til 11:00 in the morning: a gorgeous sugar roll; a bottomless cup of coffee. 1967 Nevada State Jrnl. 5 May 9 (advt.) Bottomless glass of champagne for the ladies; all you can drink for only 50¢. 2003 N.Y. Times 4 June d2/2 Bottomless salad bowls and breadstick baskets, free refills on drinks, not to mention large portions, play into the idea that these restaurants are a bargain. 5. a. Of clothing (esp. trousers): cut to expose the buttocks; having a hole in the region of the buttocks. ΚΠ 1951 Cumberland (Maryland) Evening Times 11 Jan. 1/4 Pat Hall—actress, model and designer—dreamed up a model which is strapless, almost topless and almost bottomless. 1987 Orange County (Calif.) Reg. (Nexis) 5 July 4 I noted one young woman of near-perfect tan and figure lying face-down on a beach blanket with a bathing-suit bottom that could fairly be described as bottomless. 1998 Sun (Baltimore) (Nexis) 10 Sept. 1 e Marilyn Manson decided to let it all hang out in a pair of bottomless leather pants... No one at MTV had any idea beforehand that Manson was planning to expose his pasty posterior. b. Of a person: naked or nearly naked below the waist. Cf. topless adj. 3b. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > nakedness or state of being unclothed > [adjective] > having specific part of body uncovered > other bare-necked1603 bare-backed1834 bare-knuckled1924 bottomless1964 1964 Racine (Wisconsin) Jrnl.-Times 3 July 5 b/2 (caption) Sheila goes topless and Sharon bottomless. 1970 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 7 May 26 Most of the clubs present topless waitresses, bottomless dancers and shows involving total nudity. 1998 Daily News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 15 May 128 Everyone but George sees his new girlfriend topless. Worse, she spots him bottomless, fresh from a dip in the pool and suffering from male ‘shrinkage’. 2002 L. Fraser-Gooda in L. Purcell Black Chicks Talking (following p. 238) I wanted to show the raw beauty of us black women and that we should be proud of our bodies, so I decided to go bottomless. c. Having, involving, or portraying people who are naked below the waist; esp. (of a bar or club) employing women naked below the waist as waitresses or dancers. ΚΠ 1965 Times (San Mateo, Calif.) 5 May 6/2 ‘We haven't stopped the bottomless shows,’ added Mrs. Ruth Bonell, mayor of Pico Rivera. 1972 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 6 Dec. 1/1 The practical effect of the ruling,..may be to force many topless, bottomless and sexually oriented bars,..to go out of business. 1983 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 10 Apr. x. 15 Beaches are topless and sometimes bottomless. 1992 Evening Standard 28 Sept. 40/1 Topless and bottomless dancing and women's hot-oil wrestling have given Bourbon Street, the Quarter's heart, a slightly seedy image. 2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 20 Apr. (Arts & Leisure section) 16/1 Their film features a ‘bottomless party’ (where guests disrobe from the waist down). Compounds bottomless pit n. [after Hellenistic Greek ἄβυσσος abyss n.] a pit whose bottom cannot be seen or found; an abyss, hell; (in extended use) something which can never be filled or satisfied, or which is inexhaustible or unfathomable.Originally and frequently as a biblical allusion: see e.g. quot. 1526. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > hell > [noun] > as pit or abyss hell pitOE pitOE abysmc1350 hell-holec1400 abyssc1460 bisme1483 pota1500 barathrum?1510 bottomless pit1526 limbo-lake1558 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Rev. ix. 1 And the fyfte angell blewe, and I sawe a starre fall from heven vnto the erth. And to him was geven the kaye of the bottomlesse pytt. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job xxxvi. 16 So shall he kepe the..from the bottomlesse pytte that is beneth. 1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. iv. f. 29 She not long constant in that minde, afterwadrs [sic] will attend vnto the first suter,..and him in the ende will suffre to fall headlong into the bottomlesse pit of dispaire. 1611 Bible (King James) Rev. ix. 1 And the fift angel sounded, and I saw a starre fall from heauen unto the earth: and to him was giuen the key of the bottomlesse pit. 1648 Looking-glasse for Well-affected in London 3 The Prelates and the Prelaticall Clergy, those Locusts of the bottomless pit, who have cropped our harvest of a glorious reformation, for many years, even in the Blade. a1678 A. Woodhead Motives Holy Living (1688) i. iii. 8 Weigh well the terrible description of these punishments... The..Bottomless Pit; A Fire- and Brimstone-Lake. 1712 J. Arbuthnot (title) Law is a Bottomless Pit. Exemplify'd in the Case of the Lord Strutt. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian vii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 161 To rid the land of the swarm of Arminian caterpillars, Socinian pismires, and deistical Miss Katies, that have ascended out of the bottomless pit. 1865 K. Graves Biogr. Satan 42 St. John speaks of the Dragon falling (from his angelship) and being cast into the bottomless pit. 1916 A. Bullard Diplomacy of Great War 264 If the French are relieved of the pressing fear of Germany, they will stop sinking their money in the bottomless pit of the Tsar's misgovernment. 1986 B. Dijkstra Idols of Perversity viii. 250 Disquisitions upon the bottomless pit of woman's sexual nature. 2000 Building Design 11 Feb. 12/3 The Treasury and Gordon Brown hold the purse strings tightly and ‘prudently’ (except where the bottomless pit of the Dome or the PFI is concerned). Derivatives ˈbottomlessly adv. unfathomably; endlessly, inexhaustibly. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [adverb] > inexhaustibly bottomlessly1594 inexhaustibly1694 exhaustlessly1766 inexhaustively1882 1594 tr. A. Arnauld Arrainm. Whole Soc. Iesuits in France f. 5 What force the scrupules of conscience were of in the hearts of men, and how deeply and bottomlesly they pearce into mens breasts. 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xix. 60 Who is it, that is so bottomlesly ill, as to loue vice, because it is vice? 1888 Cent. Mag. June 278/2 I was madly, hopelessly, intensely, bottomlessly in love with a young lady of twenty-six. 1996 A. Theroux Secondary Colors 1 But, surely, it is nothing if not unshy and bottomlessly flippant and even pagan. ˈbottomlessness n. the state or quality of being bottomless. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > changeableness > [noun] unstablenessc1340 varyingc1380 uncertaintyc1384 brotelnessc1386 were1390 instabilityc1422 bricklenessa1425 changeability?a1425 changeableness1447 vertibility1447 mutability?a1475 variableness?a1475 inconstance1509 mutationa1542 fickleness1548 variety1548 unconstancy1563 mobility1567 unstability1572 vicissitude1576 variousness1607 inconstancy1613 slipperinessa1618 alterableness1633 versatilousness1640 bottomlessness1642 lability1651 brittlety1652 versatileness1654 fluctuancy1659 fugitivenessa1661 alterability1661 permutability1662 unfixedness1668 mutablenessa1677 flittingnessa1680 frailness1687 flittiness1692 versability1721 plasticity1727 variability1771 unestablishment1776 fluctuabilitya1786 changefulness1791 unsettledness1799 versatility1802 harlequinism1808 fluidity1824 fitfulness1825 sensitiveness1825 insubstantiality1848 contingency1858 rootlessness1859 shiftingness1866 ficklety1888 variancy1888 impredicability1906 proteanism1909 1642 D. Rogers Naaman 180 That wearisomenesse of Selfe, never settled, that bottomelessenesse, never grounded. 1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 306 Men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it. 2000 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 9 Nov. c10 During Nothing Good, you feel again the fragility and bottomlessness of his talent. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.c1400
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