measureless en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree Old French mesurebor. Middle English mesure English measure 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 measureless From measure + -less.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not measured because it is so large that it is difficult or impossible to do so.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree: / Where Alph, the sacred river, ran / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea.
1797, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Kubla Khan: Or A Vision in a Dream”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], published 1816, →OCLC, page 55:
Deriveds
measurelessly · measurelessness
Synonyms
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pl bezmierny (Translations)