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Definitions: Limitless |
LimitlessAdjective1. Without limits in extent or size or quantity; "immeasurable vastness of our solar system". 2. Having no limits in range or scope; "to start with a theory of unlimited freedom is to end up with unlimited despotism"- Philip Rahv; "the limitless reaches of outer space". 3. Seemingly boundless in amount, number, degree, or especially extent; "unbounded enthusiasm"; "children with boundless energy"; "a limitless supply of money". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "limitless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Synonyms: LimitlessSynonyms: boundless (adj), illimitable (adj), measureless (adj), unbounded (adj), unlimited (adj), unmeasured (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: limited (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Infinity | Adjective: infinite; immense; numberless, countless, sumless, measureless; innumerable, immeasurable, incalculable, illimitable, inexhaustible, interminable, unfathomable, unapproachable; exhaustless, indefinite; without number, without measure, without limit, without end; incomprehensible; limitless, endless, boundless, termless; untold, unnumbered, unmeasured, unbounded, unlimited; illimited; perpetual. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Limitless |
| English words defined with "limitless": abysmal ♦ boundless ♦ eternally, everlastingly, evermore ♦ forever ♦ Incircumscription ♦ ocean ♦ sea ♦ unbounded, unlimited. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You know in my world Casey there were limitless oceans as far as the eye could see. Beautiful huh? (The Faculty; writing credit: David Wechter; Bruce Kimmel) | |
Clever | Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. (references; author: Mark Twain) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Limitless (1991) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Gustave Flaubert | Earth has its boundaries but human stupidity is limitless. |
Marcus T. Cicero | The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He thinks of the shadowy adventures of his lifeless body in the limitless gloom. |
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Economic History | India | Although India's rapidly growing population presents limitless opportunities, many Indian and foreign companies have discovered that for many product categories, only a fraction of India's population can be regarded as potential customers. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Franklin Pierce | 1853-1857 | Its obligations throng the unexplored pathway of advancement, and will be limitless as duration. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | The promise of our future is limitless. |
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| "Limitless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Limitless" is used about 184 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 184 | 22,714 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
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almost application by ess limitless supported transactions type | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "limitless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i pakufishëm (boundless, go-as-you-please, illimitable, last ditch, termless, unfair, unlimited, unmeasured), i pakufi (boundless, infinite, undeterminable), i pafund (abysmal, bottomless, boundless, dateless, endless, immeasurable, immense, inexhaustible, infinite, interminable, lengthy, never ending, numberless, spaceless, unending, unlimited, vast, vasty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | لا يعرف حدا, لا حد له. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неограничен (absolute, autocratic, autocratical, clear, plenary, plenipotentiary, sovereign, stintless, termless, unbounded, unconditioned, unconstrained, unlimited, unreserved, unrestricted, unstinted, untrammelled, wide), безграничен (boundless, endless, illimitable, infinite, termless, unlimited). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 不可限量. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | neomezený (boundless, endless, unbounded, unlimited, unqualified, unrestrained, unrestricted, untrammelled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | بی حدوحصر (Indeterminable, Spaceless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sans borne (without limit), infini, illimité. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | grenzenlos (borderless, boundless, boundlessly, infinite, interminable, limitlessly, unbounded). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | απεριόριστοσ (absolute, boundless, illimitable, implicit, stintless, unbounded, unconfined, unlimited, unqualified, unrestricted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | határtalan (borderless, boundless, excessive, extreme, huge, illimitable, indefinite, infinite, measureless, spaceless, termless, to know no bounds, unbounded). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | senza limiti, illimitato (absolute, boundless, endless, illimitable, unbounded, unboundedly, unlimited, unrestricted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 窮まり無い (boundless, extreme), 窮まりない (boundless, extreme), 無制限 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きわまりない (boundless, extreme, extremely, in the extreme), むせいげん. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 무진장. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | neuchaglee, gyn teorey, gyn kione (endless, incessantly, pointless), gyn jeorey, gyn cagliagh (aorist, boundless, unbounded). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | imitlesslay ilimitado (absolute, all purpose, borderless, boundless, clear, illimitable, incomprehensible, measureless, shoreless, termless, unbounded, universal, unlimited, unlimted, unrestricted, whole-hogger), guerra limitada. (various references) nemãrginit (boundless, immensurable, incommensurably, infinite, measureless, unbounded, unlimited), nelimitat (absolute, absolutely, boundless, indefinite, unbounded, uncontrollable, unlimited), fãrã margine. (various references) безграничный (absolute, bottomless, boundless, infinite, measureless, termless, unbounded, unlimited). (various references) neograničen (illimitable, unlimited, unrestricted), bezgraničan (boundless, unlimited). (various references) sin li/mites, sin límites (boundless, illimitable, open, shoreless, unlimited), sin final. (various references) gränslös (absolute, borderless, boundless, illimitable, immeasurable, infinite, landless, unbounded, unlimited). (various references) uçsuz bucaksız (endless, immense, no end in sight, shoreless, vast), sonsuz (abiding, abysmal, boundless, dateless, endless, eternal, illimitable, immeasurable, immortal, indefinite, infinite, interminable, never ending, no end, no end of, sempiternal, timeless, undying, unending, without end), sayısız (beyond number, countless, indefinite, infinite, innumerable, myriad, no end, no end of, numberless, numerous, umpteen, umpteenth, umptieth, uncounted, unnumbered, untold), sınırsız (absolute, borderless, boundless, illimitable, immeasurable, infinite, measureless, plenary, shoreless, unbounded, unconfined, unlimited, unrestricted, unstinted, without stint). (various references) здksiz (boundless). (various references) неоюмежений, безкрайній. (various references) vô hạn (boundless, day, illimitable, immeasurable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | infinitus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "limitless": limitlessly, limitlessness, limitlessnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Limitless" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Liliales, limities, limitlessy, Lomatils, Lysikles. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "limitless" (pronounced li"mutlus) |
| 5 | -u t l u s | pilotless, ticketless. |
| 4 | -t l u s | atlas, countless, cutlass, doubtless, ductless, effortless, flightless, fruitless, guiltless, heartless, listless, meatless, pointless, relentless, restless, rootless, shiftless, spotless, stateless, tasteless, thoughtless, warrantless, weightless, witless. |
| 3 | -l u s | accomplice, acropolis, ageless, aimless, airless, Amaryllis, anomalous, bacillus, backless, balas, baseless, blameless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, calculus, callous, callus, careless, Carolus, cashless, ceaseless, childless, classless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, colorless, cordless, defenseless, digitalis, directionless, driverless, earless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, fabulous, faceless, fatherless, fearless, featherless, featureless, feckless, fellas, fenceless, flawless, frictionless, frivolous, Gallus, garrulous, gladiolus, godless, graceless, groundless, guileless, hairless, hapless, harmless, headless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, hornless, humorless, incredulous, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, landless, lawless, leaderless, leafless, legless, libelous, lifeless, limbless, loveless, luckless, malice, marvelous, meaningless, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, mindless, miraculous, motherless, motionless, nameless, nautilus, nebulous, necklace, necropolis, needless, odorless, overzealous, Oxalis, painless, palace, paperless, peerless, pendulous, penniless, perilous, pitiless, polis, populace, populous, powerless, priceless, prothallus, purposeless, querulous, reckless, regardless, remorseless, ridiculous, riskless, rudderless, ruthless, scandalous, scoreless, scrupulous, scurrilous, seamless, selfless, senseless, sexless, shameless, shapeless, skinless, sleepless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, stainless, stimulus, stylus, surplus, syphilis, tantalus, thankless, tieless, timeless, tireless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, tremulous, unscrupulous, useless, valueless, victimless, voiceless, windlass, windowless, wireless, wordless, worthless, zealous, zipless. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-i-l-l-m-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: elitisms, silliest, slimiest. | |
-2 letters: elitism, illites, limiest, limites, listels, millets, mislies, missile, mitises, sillies, similes, stimies. | |
-3 letters: illest, illite, islets, istles, lilies, limits, lisles, listel, milles, millet, mislie, mislit, missel, misset, simile, sliest, slimes, smells, smelts, smiles, smites, stiles, stills, stimes, tmesis. | |
-4 letters: emits, isles, islet, issei, istle, items, lilts, limes, limit, lisle, lists. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-i-l-l-m-s-s-t" | |
+2 letters: limitlessly, literalisms. | |
+3 letters: bimetallisms, bimetallists, instillments, miscellanist, osmolalities, sillimanites. | |
+4 letters: bilateralisms, collectivisms, limitlessness, miscellanists, phillumenists. | |
+5 letters: feuilletonisms, millennialists, telefacsimiles, triliteralisms. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 69 6D 69 74 6C 65 73 73 |
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