unbottomedadj.1
1.
a. Having no bottom; bottomless. Also figurative.
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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
society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > bucket or pail > [adjective] > types of bucket or pail
unbottomed1615
hoopless1885
1615 J. Sylvester Tobacco Battered 192 Tobacco's smoakie Mists Which..No small addition of Adustion fit Bring to the smoak of the Unbottom'd Pit.
1630 J. Taylor Eighth Wonder of World in Wks. ii. 67/1 The nine and forty wenches, water filling, In tubs vnbottom'd, which was euer spilling.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 405 Who shall tempt with wandring feet The dark unbottom'd infinite Abyss..? View more context for this quotation
1704 Moderation Display'd x From Faction's dark unbottom'd Cell I come.
1778 Conciliation 7 Mir'd and flound'ring in th' unbottom'd Pit.
1802 J. Leyden Mermaid 44 If, from the unbottom'd deep,..The sea-snake heave his snowy mane.
b. figurative. Unfathomable.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [adjective] > inexhaustible
bottomlessa1450
unconsumable1571
inexhaustiblea1631
inexhaurible1658
exhaustless1712
inexhaustive1728
inexhaustless1739
unbottomed1766
drainless1817
1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality II. viii. 77 I will no longer..make my ignorance a sounding-line for his [sc. God's] unbottomed wisdom.
2. Having no proper foundation; unsupported; not founded on or in something.
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the world > time > change > changeableness > [adjective]
slidinga900
wankleeOE
windyc1000
unsteadfastc1200
fleeting?c1225
loose?c1225
brotelc1315
unstablec1340
varyingc1340
variantc1374
motleyc1380
ungroundedc1380
muablea1393
passiblea1393
remuablea1393
changeablea1398
movablea1398
variablec1397
slidderya1400
ticklec1400
variantc1412
flitting1413
mutable?a1425
movingc1425
flaskisable1430
flickering1430
transmutablec1430
vertible1447
brittlea1450
ficklea1450
permutablec1450
unfirmc1450
uncertain1477
turnable1483
unsteadfast1483
vagrantc1522
inconstant1526
alterable?1531
stirringc1540
slippery1548
various1552
slid?1553
mutala1561
rolling1561
weathery1563
unconstant1568
interchangeable1574
fluctuant1575
stayless1575
transitive1575
voluble1575
changeling1577
queasy1579
desultory1581
huff-puff1582
unstaid1586
vagrant1586
changeful1590
floating1594
Protean1594
unstayed1594
swimming1596
anchorless1597
mobilec1600
ticklish1601
catching1603
labile1603
unrooted1604
quicksilvered1605
versatile1605
insubstantial1607
uncertain1609
brandling1611
rootless1611
squeasy1611
wind-changinga1616
insolid1618
ambulatory1625
versatilous1629
plastic1633
desultorious1637
unbottomed1641
fluid1642
fluent1648
yea-and-nay1648
versipellous1650
flexile1651
uncentred1652
variating1653
chequered1656
slideable1662
transchangeative1662
weathercock-like1663
flicketing1674
fluxa1677
lapsable1678
wanton1681
veering1684
upon the weathercock1702
contingent1703
unsettled?1726
fermentable1731
afloat1757
brickle1768
wavy1795
vagarious1798
unsettled1803
fitful1810
metamorphosical1811
undulating1815
tittupya1817
titubant1817
mutative1818
papier mâché1818
teetotum1819
vacillating1822
capricious1823
sensitive1828
quicksilvery1829
unengrafted1829
fluxionala1834
proteiform1833
liquid1835
tottlish1835
kaleidoscopic1846
versative1846
kaleidoscopical1858
tottery1861
choppy1865
variative1874
variational1879
wimbly-wambly1881
fluctuable1882
shifty1882
giveable1884
shifty1884
tippy1886
mutatory1890
upsettable1890
rocky1897
undulatory1897
streaky1898
tottly1905
tipply1906
up and down1907
inertialess1927
sometimey1946
rise-and-fall1950
switchable1961
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > error in belief or opinion > [adjective]
falsec1175
ungroundedc1380
ungroundable1395
erroneousc1400
wrongc1400
rotten1529
mistaken1540
sinistral1542
sinistrous1562
errorful1570
unsolid1593
unsound1595
misgrounded1606
mistaking1631
errorous1633
unbottomed1641
erratile1652
heterodox1654
unbased1860
misfelt1935
fuzzy1937
flaky1972
1641 J. Gauden Love of Truth 21 For errour is so feeble and unbottomed, that it must have some butresses and seeming basis of truth to support it.
1650 E. Ashmole tr. A. Dee Fasciculus Chemicus Prol. 3 Others there are, who out of Ignorance or Mistake, have delivered blinde and unbottomed Fictions.
1675 H. More in R. Ward Life (1710) 272 The Question,..whether there be no Love unbottomed on Self-love?
1745 E. Young Complaint: Night the Eighth 40 Can Joy, unbottom'd in Reflection stand? And, in a Tempest, can Reflection, live?
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
unbottomedadj.2
Deprived of a bottom or foundation; unsettled.
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the world > time > change > changeableness > [adjective] > of persons
ficklea1275
mutablec1425
fleeting1553
rolling1561
unbottomed?1674
motley1755
mobile1778
?1674 W. Penn in W. Penn & G. Whitehead Christian-quaker i. xxv. 126 Thus is this Man Unravel'd, Unreligion'd, Unbottom'd as to his former State.
a1684 R. Leighton Pract. Comm. 1st Epist. Peter (1694) II. 248 You are your own deceivers in it..and are not careful to have your Souls really unbottom'd from themselves, and built upon Christ.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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