depthless en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree English depth Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English depthless From depth + -less.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Having no depth, or having a depth that is impossible to determine; immeasurably deep.
The result is not an image of the natural world in a tapestry but a depiction of nature as a tapestry: a splendid, impenetrable, depthless screen of shivering pixels.
2007 October 19, Holland Cotter, “King-Size Stories, Woven for the Ages”, in New York Times: