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bottomlessbot‧tom‧less /ˈbɒtəmləs $ ˈbɑː-/ adjective ![](img/spkr_b.png) - In the dream, I was falling and falling in a bottomless abyss.
- the bottomless depths of the ocean
- To the child the hole seemed like a bottomless pit.
- And we know the usual fate of such ephemera: consignment to the bottomless circular file below the desk.
- In some cases the ravine could well be shown as virtually bottomless.
- Money couldn't buy you love but maybe the Beatles' bottomless pockets could buy the world a new order.
- She had produced a cake from her bottomless bottom drawer, and two gallon jugs of tea with Styrofoam cups.
- The vivisystems I examine in this book are nearly bottomless complications, vast in range, and gigantic in nuance.
- There was a seemingly bottomless Paris real-estate crisis.
- You both are doomed to the bottomless pits of hell.
water/hole/snow/sand► deep use this about water, holes, snow etc where the bottom is a long distance from the top: · Be careful. The water's quite deep here.· The hole was deeper than they thought.· Larry had a deep cut on his left leg.get deeper: · The pond gets much deeper in the middle. ► bottomless extremely deep and seeming to have no bottom: · To the child the hole seemed like a bottomless pit.· In the dream, I was falling and falling in a bottomless abyss. ► the depths the depths of the sea, a lake, the Earth etc are the very deepest parts of the sea, a large lake, or the Earth: · Who knows what creatures live in the depths of the ocean?· As I hiked around the volcano, clouds of steam rose up from the depths of the Earth. ► a bottomless pit The government does not have a bottomless pit (=a supply with no limits) of money to spend on public services. NOUN► pit· You both are doomed to the bottomless pits of hell.· You've got to go down into this bottomless pit before you can pick yourself up again.· But somebody ought to tell the filmmakers, who are churning out movies as if demand were a bottomless pit.· It is because pleasure-seeking is a bottomless pit, never satisfied.· Her sleep was black and absolute, as if she had been dropped into a bottomless pit.· Thus, pump-priming has turned into a bottomless pit for the Treasury, in spite of the reinvestment of large receipts from land sales.· And then, suddenly, an open door with a dark, bottomless pit behind it. 1a bottomless hole, sea etc is one that is extremely deep: There was a rope dangling down into a dark bottomless hole.2seeming to have no end or limit: the bottomless well of information available through the Internet The government does not have a bottomless pit (=a supply with no limits) of money to spend on public services. |