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Definition: Unbounded |
UnboundedAdjective1. 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 "unbounded" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: UnboundedSynonyms: boundless (adj), limitless (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: Unbounded |
| English words defined with "unbounded": plane ♦ sheet. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "unbounded": B1FF, Bed Fellow ♦ cutting theorem ♦ Ellie ♦ Gautier ♦ Implicit ♦ Lusitanian Prince ♦ Menecrates ♦ parallel random access machine, pointer machine, PRECCX ♦ random access machine, Roof ♦ slow wave, Sun ♦ time sink, Turing reduction ♦ uncomputable function. (references) |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | In those days there were high hopes and unbounded confidence that the wars were over, and that the League of Nations would become all-powerful. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | The visit of General Lafayette, alike honorable to himself and to our country, closed, as it had commenced, with the most affecting testimonials of devoted attachment on his part, and of unbounded gratitude of this people to him in return. |
Herbert C. Hoover | 1929-1933 | I have received unbounded hospitality and courtesy as their expression of friendliness to our country. |
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| "Unbounded" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unbounded" is used about 82 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% | 82 | 36,594 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "unbounded": unbounded dependency ♦ unbounded interval. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
bring bring bring bring bring good good good good good happiness happiness happiness happiness happiness nature nature nature nature nature unbounded unbounded unbounded unbounded unbounded will will will will will | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "unbounded"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i pathurur, i pakufizuar (absolute, autocratic, autocratical, dateless, termless, unconditioned, unlimited, unqualified, unreserved, unrestricted). (various references) | |
Arabic | مطلق (absolute, categorical, complete, downright, free, full, infinite, liberator, outright, perfect, plenary, stark, ultimate, unconditional, uncontrolled, unlimited, unqualified, unrestrained, unrestricted, utter), غير مقيد (unbound, unrestrained), غير محدود (bottomless, boundless, indefinite, infinite, plenary, unlimited, unrestrained). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | неограничен (absolute, autocratic, autocratical, clear, limitless, plenary, plenipotentiary, sovereign, stintless, termless, unconditioned, unconstrained, unlimited, unreserved, unrestricted, unstinted, untrammelled, wide), необуздан (bacchanal, hot, intractable, lawless, mad, obstreperous, orgiastic, phrenetic, rambunctious, rampageous, rampant, riotous, tearaway, unbridled, unchecked, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unrestrained, unruled, vagrant, wanton, wild, zizzi), безкраен (dateless, endless, eternal, everlasting, incessant, infinite, measureless, never ending, perpetual, spaceless, termless, timeless, unending, unmeasured). (various references) | |
Chinese | 無限 (unlimited), 边际. (various references) | |
Czech | nespoutaný (fetterless, go-as-you-please, unbridled, uninhibited, unrestrained), nesmírný (enormous, extreme, great, immeasurable, immense, infinite, prodigious, rare, utmost, vast), neomezený (boundless, endless, limitless, unlimited, unqualified, unrestrained, unrestricted, untrammelled), bezmezný (abysmal). (various references) | |
Dutch | niet-locale afhankelijkheid (long distance dependency, non-local dependency, unbounded dependency). (various references) | |
Finnish | rajaton (boundless, endless, infinite, unlimited). (various references) | |
French | sans bornes (unlimited), immense, illimité (unboundedly, unconfined, unlimited, unrestricted), démesuré. (various references) | |
German | unbegrenzt (boundless, illimitable, indefinite, indefinitely, infinite, limitless, unboundedly, unlimited, unlimitedly, unstinted, unstinting). (various references) | |
Greek | απεριόριστοσ (absolute, boundless, illimitable, implicit, limitless, stintless, unconfined, unlimited, unqualified, unrestricted). (various references) | |
Hebrew | בלתי מו'בל (unlimited). (various references) | |
Hungarian | határtalan (borderless, boundless, excessive, extreme, huge, illimitable, indefinite, infinite, limitless, measureless, spaceless, termless, to know no bounds). (various references) | |
Italian | illimitato (absolute, boundless, endless, illimitable, limitless, unboundedly, unlimited, unrestricted). (various references) | |
Manx | gyn cagliagh (aorist, boundless, limitless). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oundedunbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sem limites (boundless, limitless, measureless, shoreless, spaceless, spanless), irrestrito (implicit, unlimited, unrestricted), infinito (boundless, endless, illimitable, immeasurable, immense, incomprehensible, infinite, infinitive, infinity, unmeasured), ilimitado (absolute, all-purpose, borderless, boundless, clear, illimitable, incomprehensible, limitless, measureless, shoreless, termless, universal, unlimited, unlimted, unrestricted, whole-hogger), excessivo (exceeding, excessive, exorbitant, fulsome, immoderate, inordinate, out-of-the-way, over, overabundant, overdone, overpowering, prohibitive, racking, rampant, redundant, steep, superfluous, supervacaneous, too, ultra, unconscionable, undue). (various references) | |
Romanian | nemãrginit (boundless, immensurable, incommensurably, infinite, limitless, measureless, unlimited), nelimitat (absolute, absolutely, boundless, indefinite, limitless, uncontrollable, unlimited). (various references) | |
Russian | неограниченный (absolute, autocratic, autocratical, illimitable, indefinite, plenipotentiary, unconditioned, unconfined, unlimited, unltd, unrestricted), безграничный (absolute, bottomless, boundless, infinite, limitless, measureless, termless, unlimited). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | neukoričen (loose leaf, unbound), nepovezan (asyndetic, desultory, disconnected, discontinuous, incoherent, unconnected, unrelated), neobavezan (dispensable, elective, facultative, optional, unbound). (various references) | |
Spanish | ilimitado (boundless, illimitable, infinite, limitless, unlimited). (various references) | |
Swedish | utan gränser, gränslös (absolute, borderless, boundless, illimitable, immeasurable, infinite, landless, limitless, unlimited). (various references) | |
Turkish | sınırsız (absolute, borderless, boundless, illimitable, immeasurable, infinite, limitless, measureless, plenary, shoreless, unconfined, unlimited, unrestricted, unstinted, without stint), kontrolsüz (unchecked, uncontrolled, unrestrained), aşırı (acute, beastly, beyond, breakneck, camp, confoundedly, cruelly, crusted, damned, dead, deep, desperate, desperately, devilish, disproportionate, every other day, exaggerated, exceeding, excessive, excessively, exorbitant, exquisite, extortionate, extravagant, extreme, extremely, fancy, ferocious, filthy, fond, fulsome, hard, heavy, hell, hell of, high, horrendous, horrific, hyper-, immoderate, inordinate, intense, intensive, like hell, like sin, outrageous, over, overweening, precious, shocking, splitting, steep, super, terribly, thick, ultra, unco, unconscionable, undue, unmeasured, unreasonable, violent), ölçüsüz (beyond measure, exceeding, excessive, extravagant, extreme, immoderate, incommensurable, inordinate, intemperate, measureless, out of all measure, unconscionable, unmeasured). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | необмежений (absolute, illimitable, indefinite, open, open ended, plenipotential, plenipotentiary, unlimited, unrestrained), безкраїй (shoreless). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vô tận (ad infinitum, cow, endless, infinity, interminable, measureless, termless, unlimited), vô độ (measureless), không giới hạn (ad infinitum, unconfined, unlimited), không bờ bến quá độ. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | interminatis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "unbounded": unboundedness, unboundednesses. (additional references) | |
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"Unbounded" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unblooded, unboned, unbounced, unmoulded. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unbounded" (pronounced unbou"ndud) |
| 6 | -b ou" n d u d | abounded, bounded, rebounded. |
| 5 | -ou" n d u d | astounded, compounded, confounded, expounded, founded, grounded, hounded, impounded, pounded, propounded, rounded, sounded, surrounded, unfounded. |
| 4 | -n d u d | amended, appended, apprehended, ascended, attended, backhanded, banded, befriended, bended, blended, blinded, bonded, branded, candid, commanded, commended, comprehended, contended, corresponded, defended, demanded, depended, descended, disbanded, landed, distended, dumbfounded, ended, evenhanded, expanded, expended, extended, fended, funded, handed, intended, masterminded, mended, minded, offended, overextended, overfunded, pretended, recommended, refunded, remanded, reminded, reprimanded, rescinded, responded, sanded, seconded, splendid, stranded, suspended, tended, transcended, trended, unamended, unattended, unbranded, underfunded, underhanded, unfunded, unintended, winded, wounded. |
| 3 | -d u d | acceded, accorded, abided, added, afforded, aided, alluded, applauded, avoided, awarded, barricaded, beaded, bearded, bedded, beheaded, bladed, blindfolded, blindsided, blockaded, blooded, boarded, bombarded, braided, breaded, broadsided, brooded, carded, cascaded, ceded, chided, clouded, coded, coincided, collided, colluded, conceded, concluded, confided, corded, corroded, crowded, decided, deeded, defrauded, degraded, deluded, denuded, derided, discarded, intruded, invaded, jaded, kidded, larded, lauded, leaded, lightheaded, loaded, lopsided, disregarded, dissuaded, divided, downgraded, downloaded, dreaded, eluded, embedded, encoded, enshrouded, eroded, evaded, exceeded, excluded, exploded, extruded, exuded, faded, feuded, fielded, flooded, folded, forwarded, gilded, glided, goaded, graded, guarded, guided, hardheaded, headed, heeded, heralded, herded, hoarded, homesteaded, hooded, imbedded, impeded, imploded, included, interceded, melded, misguided, molded, muddleheaded, needed, nodded, outmoded, overcrowded, overloaded, padded, paraded, persuaded, pervaded, pleaded, plodded, preceded, precluded, prerecorded, presided, prided, proceeded, prodded, provided, raided, railroaded, receded, recorded, redheaded, regarded, reloaded, remolded, resided, retarded, rewarded, safeguarded, scalded, scolded, seceded, secluded, seeded, serenaded, shaded, shepherded, shielded, shredded, shrouded, sided, skidded, sordid, spearheaded, speeded, stampeded, studded, subdivided, subsided, succeeded, superseded, threaded, traded, unaided, undecided, undivided, unexploded, unfolded, unguarded, unheeded, unheralded, unimpeded, unleaded, unloaded, unneeded, unrecorded, upbraided, upgraded, voided, wadded, waded, warded, wedded, weeded, welded, wielded, wooded, worded, wrongheaded, yielded. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-d-e-n-n-o-u-u" | |
-2 letters: bounded, bounden, unboned, unbound. | |
-3 letters: bonded, donned, dunned, unbend, undone. | |
-4 letters: boded, boned, bonne, bound, donne, undue. | |
-5 letters: bedu, bend, bode, bond, bone, bund, bunn, done, dude, dune, ebon, eddo, neon, node, none, noun, nude, unbe, unde, undo. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-d-e-n-n-o-u-u" | |
+4 letters: unboundedness. | |
+5 letters: dumbfoundering. | |
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